Crop Variety Trials

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Variety trials are an essential step in crop breeding programs. These trials are a significant investment in time and resources and inform numerous decisions from cultivar development to end-use. Crop Variety Trials: Data Management and Analysis is a practical volume that provides valuable theoretical foundations as well as a guide to step-by-step implementation of effective trial data management and analysis in determining the best varieties and cultivars for targeted regions. Crop Variety Trials: Data Management and Analysis provides a holistic view of crop variety trials. The book opens with chapters that provide a sound theoretical framework of variety evaluation and trial analysis. Subsequent chapters provide insights into the theories of quantitative genetics, principles of data analysis, and tools for managing and analyzing this data. The book then provides readers with a practical step-by-step guide to accurately analyzing crop variety trial data. Combined these sections provide the reader with fuller understanding of the nature of variety trials, their objectives, and user-friendly database and statistical tools that will enable them to produce efficient and accurate analysis of data. Accessibly written for breeders, statisticians, and advanced students, Crop Variety Trials: Data Management and Analysis will be a vital practical reference for anyone working in agricultural sciences. * Provides valuable theoretical framework that underpins crop variety evaluation * Practical, step-by-step guide to implementing variety trial data analysis * Bridges the gap between crop breeding and statistical analysis * A valuable resource on an essential aspect of crop breeding, production, and end-use
Variety trials are an essential step in crop breeding and production. These trials are a significant investment in time and resources and inform numerous decisions from cultivar development to end-use. Crop Variety Trials: Methods and Analysis is a practical volume that provides valuable theoretical foundations as well as a guide to step-by-step implementation of effective trial methods and analysis in determining the best varieties and cultivars. Crop Variety Trials is divided into two sections. The first section provides the reader with a sound theoretical framework of variety evaluation and trial analysis. Chapters provide insights into the theories of quantitative genetics and principles of analyzing data. The second section of the book gives the reader with a practical step-by-step guide to accurately analyzing crop variety trial data. Combined these sections provide the reader with fuller understanding of the nature of variety trials, their objectives, and user-friendly database and statistical tools that will enable them to produce accurate analysis of data.

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"Overall, in my opinion, Crop Variety Trials: Data Management and Analysisis a highly useful practical manual of MET data management and data analysis techniques. The use of GGE biplot software developed by the author has been amply demonstrated with examples." (Crop Science, 1 November 2014)
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