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The efficiency of various trialling systems for wheat variety evaluation in New South Wales (NSW) is considered. This involved the estimation of the variance components due to genotype, genotype-by-year, genotype-by-location and genotype-by-year-by-location. It is shown that there is a significant reduction in the magnitude of these variance components by the inclusion of the interaction of genotype maturity, winter habit and aluminium tolerance with environment.
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Cullis, B.R., Thomson, F.M., Fisher, J.A. et al. The analysis of the NSW wheat variety database. II. Variance component estimation. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 92, 28–39 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222948
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