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    The blog title, From Prediction to Decision: Breeding Models in an Age of Biological Complexity, set across an image of crops with visual text overlays
    • Breeding / Quantitative Genetics, Thought Leadership

    From Prediction to Decision: Breeding Models in an Age of Biological Complexity

    Breeding programmes have never had access to richer data or more sophisticated models, yet more explained variance does...
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    The blog title and a cartoon depicting the struggles of randomisation in plant breeding
    • Breeding / Quantitative Genetics, Plant/Agronomy, Thought Leadership

    Plant Breeders Love Order, Genetics Does Not!

    Plant breeders value order in the field, but genetic differences rarely respect it. Antonio Lippolis explores why randomization...
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    The blog title, Comparing ANOVA and Mixed Models: Genstat, ASReml and R, set across an image of crops in a field
    • ASReml, Genstat, Statistics and Computing

    Comparing ANOVA and Mixed Models: Genstat, ASReml and R

    Fit the same mixed model in Genstat, ASReml-R, lme4 or nlme and you can get different numbers back,...
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    The blog title "The Curious Case of Fading Superstars: Regression to the Mean" set across an image of a field with plots of crops growing
    • Blog

    The Curious Case of Fading Superstars: Regression to the Mean

    Have you ever advanced a genotype that clearly outperformed the field, only for that exceptional result to fade...
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    The blog title "Principal Coordinates, Genstat and Me" set across images of sand, pebbles, fossils and orchids
    • Genstat, Thought Leadership

    Principal Coordinates, Genstat and Me

    In 1979, a young lab technician at Rothamsted typed his data into a teleprinter and ran a two-dozen-line...
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    The blog title, "SD, SEM, SED or CI … Which one should I report?" set across a blue background with an image of data on a computer screen
    • Statistics and Computing

    SD, SEM, SED or CI … Which One Should I Report?

    When presenting treatment means, the choice of uncertainty metric matters more than it might appear. Standard deviation, standard...
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    The blog title "Decisions, Not Just Data: Rethinking the Role of Analysis in Plant Breeding" set across an image of a man stood in a field with a data flow illustrated
    • Breeding / Quantitative Genetics, Plant/Agronomy, Statistics and Computing

    Decisions, Not Just Data: Rethinking the Role of Analysis in Plant Breeding

    The volume, quality, and timeliness of data available to plant breeders has improved substantially over the last decade....
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    The blog title, "Reflections on a Career with Genstat" set across an image of Long Ashton Research Station circa 1992
    • Genstat, Thought Leadership

    Reflections on a Career with Genstat

    Dr. Ruth Butler's career with Genstat spans decades, from fitting non-linear curves as an MSc student to analysing...
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    The blog title - "Should I Analyse Change From Baseline, or Include Baseline as a Covariate?" - set across an image of lambs in a field.
    • Breeding / Quantitative Genetics, Design of Experiments

    Should I Analyse Change From Baseline, or Include Baseline as a Covariate?

    Both approaches account for where experimental units started before treatment, but they answer different questions and can lead...
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    Blog header for "Who Said the Breeder's Eye Doesn't Need Glasses?" by Dr. Antonio Lippolis, featuring a comic where a breeder puts on genomic-value glasses and discovers the plant she rejected has the higher GEBV.
    • Breeding / Quantitative Genetics, Plant/Agronomy

    Who Said the Breeder’s Eye Doesn’t Need Glasses?

    The breeder's eye has delivered enormous genetic progress. But heritability sets the ceiling for visual selection accuracy, and...
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    The blog title "The Multiple Comparison Problem — and a Practical Way to Deal with It" set across a navy background with curved graphs
    • Statistics and Computing

    The Multiple Comparison Problem — and a Practical Way to Deal with It

    Every hypothesis test carries a chance of producing a false positive. Run enough tests, and a spurious significant...
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