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Training population selection for genomic selection has captured a great deal of interest in animal and plant breeding. In this article, we derive a computationally efficient statistic to measure the reliability of estimates of genetic…
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When setting up field experiments, to test and compare a range of genotypes (e.g. maize hybrids), it is important to account for any possible field effect that may otherwise bias performance estimates of genotypes. To do so, we propose a…
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