Multi-trait Improvement by Predicting Genetic Correlations in Breeding Crosses

The many quantitative traits of interest to plant breeders are often genetically correlated, which can complicate progress from selection. Improving multiple traits may be enhanced by identifying parent combinations - an important breeding step - that will deliver more favorable genetic correlations (rG ). Modeling the segregation of genomewide markers with estimated effects may be one method of predicting rG in a cross, but this approach...