Advances towards a Marker-Assisted Selection Breeding Program in Prairie Cordgrass, a Biomass Crop

Table 1

Summary of crosses performed amongst the core prairie cordgrass germplasm collection. The type of cross is designated “Out” for crosses between geographically diverse members and “Self” for members of the population collected at the same location.

Female parent	Male parent	Number of crosses	Type	Total no. of seeds
SP1	SP21	2	Out	126
SP1	SP71	1	Out	71
SP21	SP30	1	Out	51
SP21	SP31	6	Out	484
SP21	SP4	2	Out	248
SP21	SP42	1	Out	78
SP21	SP66	2	Out	233
SP21	SP7	1	Out	82
SP24	SP30	1	Out	180
SP29	SP22	1	Out	146
SP29	SP30	1	Out	42
SP3	SP77	1	Out	282
SP30	SP31	1	Out	164
SP30	SP52	1	Out	246
SP31	SP21	4	Out	408
SP31	SP30	1	Out	28
SP31	SP32	1	Out	38
SP31	SP46	3	Out	211
SP31	SP5	1	Out	81
SP31	SP66	1	Out	46
SP31	SP79	1	Out	198
SP32	SP21	1	Out	173
SP32	SP31	2	Out	310
SP32	SP45	1	Out	296
SP32	SP66	1	Out	240
SP32	SP67	1	Out	193
SP32	SP78	1	Out	94
SP35	SP78	1	Out	279
SP41	SP42	1	Out	6
SP41	SP45	1	Out	86
SP44	SP54	1	Out	312
SP44	SP59	1	Out	274
SP45	SP31	1	Out	282
SP45	SP49	1	Out	225
SP45	SP67	1	Out	138
SP49	SP40	1	Out	203
SP49	SP45	1	Out	176
SP49	SP66	2	Out	237
SP5	SP31	1	Out	189
SP5	SP78	1	Out	407
SP53	SP67	2	Out	43
SP54	SP44	1	Out	145
SP54	SP59	2	Out	81
SP56	SP58	1	Out	235
SP65	SP57	1	Out	70
SP66	SP31	1	Out	93
SP67	SP32	1	Out	99
SP67	SP45	2	Out	583
SP67	SP53	1	Out	185
SP7	SP46	1	Out	160
SP72	SP1	1	Out	125
SP72	SP30	2	Out	459
SP75	SP13	1	Out	59
SP77	SP72	1	Out	163
SP77	SP79	1	Out	184
SP78	SP35	1	Out	94
SP78	SP79	1	Out	113
SP82	SP14	1	Out	642
SP21	SP21	13	Self	1470
SP22	SP22	1	Self	110
SP31	SP31	13	Self	1377
SP40	SP40	1	Self	126
SP41	SP41	2	Self	393
SP53	SP53	1	Self	12
SP74	SP74	2	Self	229