Research Article

A Two-Stage Method for Improving the Prediction Accuracy of Complex Traits by Incorporating Genotype by Environment Interactions in Brassica napus

Table 1

The total number of QTL detected by LASSO and the frequency of significant and nonsignificant QTL by OLS post-LASSO (significance level 0.05).

TraitEffectTotalSignificantNonsignificant

FTMain461828
Environment-specific23136195

OCMain772552
Environment-specific23738199

SYMain261115
Environment-specific14610136

FT, flowering time; OC, oil content; SY, seed yield per plant; QTL: quantitative trait loci; LASSO, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; OLS, ordinary least squares.