Figure 1.

The maximum realized kinship coefficient (MRKC) between lines grown in a testing year and lines in rest of the years (training set). The MRKC was calculated as max (U_ij) and U_ij is the realized kinship coefficient between line i in the test set and line j in the training set. The MRKC value represents the kinship between a specific line in the test set and all lines in the training set. The kinship of each of the preliminary yield trials (PYT 2012-2015) with rest of the PYTs (training set) and kinship between lines advanced from the PYT to advanced yield trial (AYT) each year (example, AYT 2013) and lines in the training set (PYT 2013, 2014, and 2015) are shown in a and b. The average maximum realized kinship coefficient estimated across all lines grown in PYT and AYT is written on top of each of the violin plots.