Crop Variety Trials

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.

"The primary aim of this project was to implement and fully integrate a relational database system for the storage, retrieval and interrogation of data from all late-stage crop variety evaluation trials conducted by NSW Agriculture. A secondary objective was to 'clone' this relational database system for the management of data from all late stage wheat variety evaluation trials conducted by Agriculture Victoria"--Leaf 1.