"Information Based Diagnostic for Genetic Variance Parameter Estimation" by Chris Lisle, Alison Smith et al.
Plant breeding programs evaluate varieties in series of field trials across years and locations, referred to as multi-environment trials (METs). These are an essential part of variety evaluation with the key aim of the statistical analysis of these datasets to accurately estimate the variety by environment (VE) effects. It has previously been thought that the number of varieties in common between environments, referred to as “variety connectivity,” was a key driver of the reliability of genetic variance parameter estimation and that this in turn affected the reliability of predictions of V...
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