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Three sets of regional six-row barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) trial data, representing cultivar x location x year, were grouped for locations based on the similarity of genotype x environment (GE) interaction. Locations were selected from each group (cluster) so that the structure of the GE interaction generated by the subsets of the locations would be approximately similar to that of the whole set (all locations). The purpose of this paper is to determine the number of locations where the GE interaction structure generated by these selected locations would be fairly consistent over years. Two statistics were used to measure the success of the selected locations: (1) the ratio of GE mean square (MS) associated with the selected location set relative to that associated with the best set (which gives the highest GE interaction MS) and (2) the rank correlation between the cultivar means averaged over the selected locations and those based on the entire data set. The results show that, for eastern Canada, 10–13 locations based on the cluster method can achieve a fairly consistent GE interaction structure over years.
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Communicated by A. R. Hallauer
Contribution no. R-078 from Research Program Service, Agriculture Canada, and contribution no. 1352 from Plant Research Centre, Central Experimental Farm
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Lin, C.S., Morrison, M.J. Selection of test locations for regional trials of barley. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 83, 968–972 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00232958
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00232958