Abstract: Systems and methods for converting thresholds in plant breeding are provided. One example computer-implemented method includes accessing data indicative of hybrid plants at a first stage of a breeding pipeline, where the data includes values of parameter(s) of the hybrid plants; imposing a first threshold(s) included in a product definition for the breeding pipeline on the accessed data, whereby ones of the hybrid plants are considered at the first stage of the breeding pipeline based on satisfying the first threshold(s), and where the first threshold(s) is specific to one of the parameter(s); measuring the value(s) of the parameter(s) for the considered ones of the multiple hybrid plants; generating, based on an aggregate of the measured values of the parameter(s) for the considered ones of the multiple hybrid plants, a second threshold(s); and repeating the above for a second stage of the breeding pipeline with the second threshold(s).

Abstract: Systems and methods for use in identifying weights to be employed in a selection algorithm associated with plant advancement are disclosed. One example method includes identifying a start set of weights for a selection algorithm associated with a breeding program, and for each scale parameter value in a schedule, and for each of N iterations, modifying the start set of weights based on the scale parameter value, identifying a set of germplasm based on at least the modified set of weights, advancing the modified set of weights to a next iteration as the start set of weights when certain criteria are satisfied, and identifying the modified set of weights as an output when the iteration is equal to N.