Spatial analysis of multi-environment early generation variety trials

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-18

  Cullis, Brian ^a   Gogel, Bev ^a   Verbyla, Arunas ^b   Thompson, Robin ^c  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BLUP; Genotype x environment interaction; REML; Spatial analysis; Variance component estimation; Variety trial

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED PREDICTOR; BLUP; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; GENOTYPE X ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MULTI-ENVIRONMENTS; REML; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL COVARIANCE; VARIANCE COMPONENT ESTIMATION; VARIETY TRIAL;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 0031919890     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533991     Document Type: Article

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