Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34567051›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021

Plant Variety Selection Using Interaction Classes Derived From Factor Analytic Linear Mixed Models: Models With Independent Variety Effects.

Alison Smith, Adam Norman, Haydn Kuchel, Brian Cullis

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Towards a sweetpotato genomic-enabled breeding: optimizing two-stage analysis of multi-environment augmented trials.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026
    Article
  7. Exploring standing genetic variation for barley leaf rust resistance in Australian breeding panel.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Prediction of Australian wheat genotype by environment interactions and mega-environments.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Image-based phenomic prediction can provide valuable decision support in wheat breeding.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023
    Article
  18. Partitioning the forms of genotype-by-environment interaction in the reaction norm analysis of stability.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023
    Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alison SmithCentre for Biometrics and Data Science for Sustainable Primary Industries, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Adam NormanAustralian Grain Technologies, Roseworthy, SA, Australia.
Haydn KuchelAustralian Grain Technologies, Roseworthy, SA, Australia.
Brian CullisCentre for Biometrics and Data Science for Sustainable Primary Industries, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major challenge in the analysis of plant breeding multi-environment datasets is the provision of meaningful and concise information for variety selection in the presence of variety by environment interaction (VEI). This is addressed in the current paper by fitting a factor analytic linear mixed model (FALMM) then using the fundamental factor analytic parameters to define groups of environments in the dataset within which there is minimal crossover VEI, but between which there may be substantial crossover VEI. These groups are consequently called interaction classes (iClasses). Given that the environments within an iClass exhibit minimal crossover VEI, it is then valid to obtain predictions of overall variety performance (across environments) for each iClass. These predictions can then be used not only to select the best varieties within each iClass but also to match varieties in terms of their patterns of VEI across iClasses. The latter is aided with the use of a new graphical tool called an iClass Interaction Plot. The ideas are introduced in this paper within the framework of FALMMs in which the genetic effects for different varieties are assumed independent. The application to FALMMs which include information on genetic relatedness is the subject of a subsequent paper.

Indexed as

crop variety evaluationfactor analytic linear mixed modelslinear mixed modelsmulti-environment trialsplant breedingvariety by environment interaction

Identifiers

PMID34567051
PMCPMC8460066

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.