PopVar: A Genome-Wide Procedure for Predicting Genetic Variance and Correlated Response in Biparental Breeding Populations

Predicting genetic variances of biparental populations has been a long‐standing goal for plant breeders. The ability to discriminate among crosses with similarly predicted high means but different levels of genetic variance ( V G ) should improve the effectiveness of breeding. We developed a procedure that uses established progeny simulation and genomic prediction strategies to predict the population mean (μ) and V G , the mean of the desired...