FieldSimR: an R package for simulating plot data in multi-environment field trials
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Edinburgh | |
| cg.contributor.donor | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | |
| cg.contributor.donor | CGIAR Trust Fund | |
| cg.contributor.initiative | Accelerated Breeding | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Christian Werner: 0000-0001-9400-5061 | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Dorcus Gemenet: 0000-0003-4901-1694 | |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1330574 | |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal | |
| cg.issn | 1664-462X | |
| cg.journal | Frontiers in Plant Science | |
| cg.number | 1330574 | |
| cg.reviewStatus | Peer Review | |
| cg.volume | 15 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Werner, Christian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gemenet, Dorcus | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tolhurst, Daniel J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-21T15:19:35Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-21T15:19:35Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162523 | |
| dc.title | FieldSimR: an R package for simulating plot data in multi-environment field trials | en |
| dcterms.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. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.available | 2024-04 | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Werner, C., Gemenet, D., & Tolhurst, D. J. (2024). FieldSimR: an R package for simulating plot data in multi-environment field trials. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15, 1330574. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1330574 | en |
| dcterms.hasVersion | https://hdl.handle.net/10883/23149 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2024-04 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | Frontiers Media | |
| dcterms.subject | simulation | en |
| dcterms.subject | spatial variations | en |
| dcterms.subject | field experimentation | en |
| dcterms.subject | linear models | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |