genomic selection (gs) is a tool for prediction of breeding values for quantitative traits. for a successful application of gs, accuracy of predicted genomic breeding value (gebv) is a key issue to consider. here we investigated the accuracy of gebv in 345 genotyped iranian holstein cattle. the study was performed on milk, fat, protein yield and somatic cell count. four methods g-blup, bayes b,...

to remove unfavorable traits of new cereal tritipyrum (2n=6x=42, aabbebeb), various crosses between primary tritipyrum lines (female) with iranian bread wheat varieties (2n=6x=42, aabbdd) was performed and a f2 selfing population consisted of 1810 possible secondary tritipyrum seeds (2n=6x=42, aabbd(0-14) eb(0-14)) were produced. the chromosome constitution and homology index of 11 plants of th...

Selection in breeding programs can be done by using phenotypes (phenotypic selection), pedigree relationship (breeding value selection) or molecular markers (marker assisted selection or genomic selection). All these methods are based on truncation selection, focusing on the best performance of parents before mating. In this article we proposed an approach to breeding, named genomic mating, whi...

BACKGROUND Accurate prediction of genomic breeding values (GEBVs) requires numerous markers. However, predictive accuracy can be enhanced by excluding markers with no effects or with inconsistent effects among crosses that can adversely affect the prediction of GEBVs. METHODS We present three different approaches for pre-selecting markers prior to predicting GEBVs using four different BLUP me...