A tutorial on the statistical analysis of factorial experiments with qualitative and quantitative treatment factor levels

HP Piepho, RN Edmondson - Journal of Agronomy and Crop …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Agronomic experiments are often complex and difficult to interpret, and the proper use of
appropriate statistical methodology is essential for an efficient and reliable analysis. In this …

Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments

RK Varshney, C Shi, M Thudi, C Mariac… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pearl millet [Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone] is a staple food for more than 90 million
farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa, India and South Asia. We report …

How general is cognitive ability in non-human animals? A meta-analytical and multi-level reanalysis approach

MA Poirier, DY Kozlovsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
General intelligence has been a topic of high interest for over a century. Traditionally,
research on general intelligence was based on principal component analyses and other …

Microbial mechanisms of carbon priming effects revealed during the interaction of crop residue and nutrient inputs in contrasting soils

Y Fang, L Nazaries, BK Singh… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Agronomic practices such as crop residue return and additional nutrient supply are
recommended to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) in arable farmlands. However …

Metabolomic selection for enhanced fruit flavor

V Colantonio, LFV Ferrão, DM Tieman… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Although they are staple foods in cuisines globally, many commercial fruit varieties have
become progressively less flavorful over time. Due to the cost and difficulty associated with …

Salinity tolerance loci revealed in rice using high-throughput non-invasive phenotyping

N Al-Tamimi, C Brien, H Oakey, B Berger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
High-throughput phenotyping produces multiple measurements over time, which require
new methods of analyses that are flexible in their quantification of plant growth and …

Influence of biochars on flux of N2O and CO2 from Ferrosol

L Van Zwieten, S Kimber, S Morris, A Downie… - Soil …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Biochars produced by slow pyrolysis of greenwaste (GW), poultry litter (PL), papermill waste
(PS), and biosolids (BS) were shown to reduce N2O emissions from an acidic Ferrosol …

High-throughput phenotyping of seminal root traits in wheat

CAI Richard, LT Hickey, S Fletcher, R Jennings… - Plant Methods, 2015 - Springer
Background Water availability is a major limiting factor for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
production in rain-fed agricultural systems worldwide. Root system architecture has …

Optimising genomic selection in wheat: effect of marker density, population size and population structure on prediction accuracy

A Norman, J Taylor, J Edwards… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genomic selection applied to plant breeding enables earlier estimates of a line's
performance and significant reductions in generation interval. Several factors affecting …

Stay-green traits to improve wheat adaptation in well-watered and water-limited environments

JT Christopher, MJ Christopher… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A stay-green phenotype enables crops to retain green leaves longer after anthesis
compared with senescent types, potentially improving yield. Measuring the normalized …