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. 2020 May 12;32(7):2083–2093. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00951

Table 2. NAM-Style Populations in Maize and Other Crops.

Crop No. of Families Total Progeny Mean Family Size Reference
Maize (United States) 25 5,000 200 (Yu et al., 2008)
Maize (China) 11 1,971 154 (Li et al., 2015)
Dent maize (Europe) 11 919 91 (Bauer et al., 2013)
Flint maize (Europe) 13 1,009 97 (Bauer et al., 2013)
Teosinte/maize 5 1,257 251 (Chen et al., 2019)
Rice 10 1,879 181 (Fragoso et al., 2017)
Wheat 10 852 85 (Bajgain et al., 2016)
Wheat 60 6,268 105 (Wingen et al., 2017)
Wheat 50 6,280 126 (Kidane et al., 2019)
Sorghum 10 2,214 221 (Bouchet et al., 2017)
Barley 5 295 59 (Schnaithmann et al., 2014)
Barley 25 1,420 57 (Maurer et al., 2015)
Soybean 40 5,600 140 (Song et al., 2017)
Rapeseed 15 2,141 143 (Hu et al., 2018)

Populations designed in the style of the original maize NAM varied in terms of the number of biparental populations and the number of progeny in each population.