Title:	Software Selegen-REML/BLUP: a useful tool for plant breeding.
Authors:	RESENDE, M. D. V. de
Affiliation:	MARCOS DEON VILELA DE RESENDE, CNPF.
Date Issued:	2016
Citation:	Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, Viçosa, MG, v. 16, n. 4, p. 330-339, Oct./Dec. 2016.
Description:	The software Selegen-REML/BLUP uses mixed models, and was developed to optimize the routine of plant breeding programs. It addresses the following plants categories: allogamous, automagous, of mixed mating system, and of clonal propagation. It considers several experimental designs, mating designs, genotype x environment interaction, experiments repeated over sites, repeated measures, progenies belonging to several populations, among other factors. The software adjusts effects, estimates variance components, genetic additive, dominance and genotypic values of individuals, genetic gain with selection, effective population size, and other parameters of interest to plant breeding. It allows testing the significance of the effects by means of likelihood ratio test (LRT) and analysis of deviance. It addresses continuous variables (linear models) and categorical variables (generalized linear models). Selegen-REML/ BLUP is friendly, easy to use and interpret, and allows dealing efficiently with most of the situations in plant breeding. It is free and available at http://www. det.ufv.br/ppestbio/corpo_docente.php under the author?s name.
NAL Thesaurus:	Plant breeding
Keywords:	Melhoramento genético Modelos mixtos lineares BLUP REML Variance components Selection Linear mixed models
DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-70332016v16n4a49
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CNPF)