This manual describes an approach to the spatial analysis of field experiments based on the software package AS residual maximum likelihood (ASREML; Gilmour et al. 1999). It describes common sources of spatial variation ...

This publication presents a GIS-based approach for revising the descriptions of global maize production environments, called "mega-environments" (MEs), used by CIMMYT and its partners. A cluster analysis was performed on ...

Despite numerous published reports of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for drought-related traits, practical applications of such QTL in maize improvement are scarce. Identifying QTL of sizeable effects that express more or ...