2002•Plant breeding reviewsRequires access

Estimating and Interpreting Heritability for Plant Breeding: An Update

James B. Holland, W. E. Nyquist, Cuauhtemoc Cervantes‐Martinez

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This chapter contains sections titled: The Meaning of Heritability Response to Selection Covariances of Relatives Variance Among Selection Units Estimating Heritability as a Function of Variance Components Estimating Heritability from Parent-Offspring Regression Estimating Realized Heritability Examples of Heritability Estimates Appendices Literature Cited

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Key concepts: Heritability, Variance (accounting), Selection (genetic algorithm), Variance components, Statistics, Biology, Regression, Econometrics