selection.index: Analysis of Selection Index in Plant Breeding

Provides tools for the simultaneous improvement of multiple traits in plant breeding. Building upon the classical selection index (Smith 1937 <doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1936.tb02143.x>) and modern quantitative genetics (Kang 2020 <doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91223-3>), this package calculates classical phenotypic, genomic, marker-assisted, restricted/constrained, and eigen selection indices. It also incorporates multi-stage selection evaluation and stochastic simulations to estimate genetic advance based on economic weights, heritability, and genetic correlations.

Package details

AuthorZankrut Goyani [aut, cre, cph]
MaintainerZankrut Goyani <zankrut20@gmail.com>
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
Version2.0.1
URL https://github.com/zankrut20/selection.index https://zankrut20.github.io/selection.index/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("selection.index")

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