Figure 1.
Mating design of the first multi-parent advanced generation intercross (MAGIC) population of sorghum, developed with the aid of genetic male sterility. In this figure, ms3 refers to the male sterile sorghum lines used to introduce sterility in the MAGIC population, RM0 to RM9 refers to cycles of random mating, S0 to S7 refers to generations of selfing, and SSD refers to single-seed descent. Initial pairwise hybridization made between 19 founding parents and 10 random sterile plants. Progenies were bulked and random mated for nine cycles, 1000 random lines were generated, and a subset of 200 has been genotyped.