Advanced course on Design and analysis of multi-environment trials: conventional and QTL-based methods
Zaragoza, Spain
12-23 September 2005

This course was intended to provide breeders, geneticists, applied statisticians and other crop specialists involved in designing and analysing field experiments, with working knowledge on different statistical tools for the multi-environment trials (METs) analysis. To achieve this objective, the course was focused on how to:

  • Design METs.
  • Analyse and interpret GxE in METs.
  • Perform QTL analyses in a MET context.
  • Use appropriate software for the analysis of METs.
  • Develop breeding strategies and achieve a better prediction of genotypic responses from quantitative analyses of MET data.

The course was organized by the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ) of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), in collaboration with the Generation Challenge Programme.

The following PDF documents are copies of notes and power point presentations that were delivered by the lecturers of the course and some related publications. Individuals may freely print materials for educational or other non-commercial purposes without prior permission. Acknowledgement of the source of the materials is required. Other uses require prior permission from the course organizers and lecturers.