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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2024

FieldSimR: an R package for simulating plot data in multi-environment field trials.

Christian R Werner, Dorcus C Gemenet, Daniel J Tolhurst

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Bridging tradition and innovation: a review of computer simulations in plant breeding.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2026
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  2. 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
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  3. A framework for simulating genotype-by-environment interaction using multiplicative models.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2024
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3 authors.

Christian R WernerAccelerated Breeding Initiative (ABI), Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Texcoco, Mexico.
Dorcus C GemenetAccelerated Breeding Initiative (ABI), Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Texcoco, Mexico.
Daniel J TolhurstThe Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a general framework for simulating plot data in multi-environment field trials with one or more traits. The framework is embedded within the R package FieldSimR, whose core function generates plot errors that capture global field trend, local plot variation, and extraneous variation at a user-defined ratio. FieldSimR's capacity to simulate realistic plot data makes it a flexible and powerful tool for a wide range of improvement processes in plant breeding, such as the optimisation of experimental designs and statistical analyses of multi-environment field trials. FieldSimR provides crucial functionality that is currently missing in other software for simulating plant breeding programmes and is available on CRAN. The paper includes an example simulation of field trials that evaluate 100 maize hybrids for two traits in three environments. To demonstrate FieldSimR's value as an optimisation tool, the simulated data set is then used to compare several popular spatial models for their ability to accurately predict the hybrids' genetic values and reliably estimate the variance parameters of interest. FieldSimR has broader applications to simulating data in other agricultural trials, such as glasshouse experiments.

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linear mixed modelsmulti-environment field trialsplot errorsimulationspatial variation

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PMCPMC11024423

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