Fig. 5

Prediction accuracy for reduced number of mRNA sequencing reads. Prediction accuracy for the barley inbreds for leaf angle, heading date, and plant height of single predictors as well as the optimal combination identified in a grid search (Opt) using the original number of reads of the seedling sample as well as using data sets for which the number of reads was randomly reduced to 10, 5, 1, and 0.5% of the original number of reads per seedling sample. The number of variants gives the mean number of features available for predictions in each scenario or for the combined predictors the weight of sequence variants (SV _s)/expression presence/absence variation (ePAV _s)/gene expression (T _s) resulting in the highest prediction accuracy. The median prediction accuracy is given above each column