Author:
Kristi Prohm

Date of Publication:
June 14, 2019

Publication:
The Better Breeding Blog

Excerpt:
As mentioned, simply-inherited and polygenic traits are equally subject to the same Mendelian and non-Mendelian inheritance forces. And both can have gene and genotypic frequencies shifted by selection and mating systems. But while it is often straightforward to observe the effect of a simply-inherited trait owing to the small number of genes involved, this isn’t the case with polygenic traits. It is often not even known how many genes are involved in a particular polygenic trait, nor what the effect of each may be.

It is because of this complexity that breeders must take very different approaches when working with simply-inherited and polygenic traits.

Read the rest of the article: https://betterbreeding.solutions/index.php/blog/working-with-simply-inherited-and-polygenic-traits-in-a-breeding-programme