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Early generation lupin trial with 3 sites, 330 test lines, 6 check lines.

Format

A data frame with 1236 observations on the following 5 variables.

site

site, levels S1 S2 S3

col

column

row

row

gen

genotype

yield

yield

Details

An early-stage multi-environment trial, with 6 check lines and 300 test lines. The 6 check lines were replicated in each environment.

Used with permission of Arthur Gilmour, Brian Cullis, Robin Thompson.

Source

Multi-Environment Trials - Lupins. https://www.vsni.co.uk/software/asreml/htmlhelp/asreml/xlupin.htm

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  
  library(agridat)
  data(vsn.lupin3)
  dat <- vsn.lupin3
  
  # Split gen into check/test, make factors
  dat <- within(dat, {
    check <- ifelse(gen>336, 0, gen)
    check <- ifelse(check<7, check, 7)
    check <- factor(check)
    test <- factor(ifelse(gen>6 & gen<337, gen, 0))
    gen=factor(gen)
  })

  libs(desplot)
  desplot(dat, yield~ col*row|site,
          # midpoint="midrange",
          # aspect unknown
          main="vsn.lupin3 - yield")
  # Site 1 & 2 used same randomization
  desplot(dat, check~ col*row|site,
          main="vsn.lupin3: check plot placement") 

  if(require("asreml", quietly=TRUE)){
    libs(asreml,lucid)
     
    # Single-site analyses suggested random row term for site 3,
    # random column terms for all sites,
    # AR1 was unnecessary for the col dimension of site 3
    dat <- transform(dat, colf=factor(col), rowf=factor(row))
    dat <- dat[order(dat$site, dat$colf, dat$rowf),] # Sort for asreml
    m1 <- asreml(yield ~ site + check:site, data=dat,
                 random = ~ at(site):colf + at(site,3):rowf + test,
                 residual = ~ dsum( ~ ar1(colf):ar1(rowf) +
                                      id(colf):ar1(rowf) | site,
                                   levels=list(1:2, 3)
                                   ) )
    m1$loglik
    ## [1] -314.2616
    
    lucid::vc(m1)
    ##                      effect component std.error z.ratio constr
    ##  at(site, S1):colf!colf.var   0.6228   0.4284       1.5    pos
    ##  at(site, S2):colf!colf.var   0.159    0.1139       1.4    pos
    ##  at(site, S3):colf!colf.var   0.04832  0.02618      1.8    pos
    ##  at(site, S3):rowf!rowf.var   0.0235   0.008483     2.8    pos
    ##               test!test.var   0.1031   0.01468      7      pos
    ##            site_S1!variance   2.771    0.314        8.8    pos
    ##            site_S1!colf.cor   0.1959   0.05375      3.6  uncon
    ##            site_S1!rowf.cor   0.6503   0.03873     17    uncon
    ##            site_S2!variance   0.9926   0.1079       9.2    pos
    ##            site_S2!colf.cor   0.2868   0.05246      5.5  uncon
    ##            site_S2!rowf.cor   0.5744   0.0421      14    uncon
    ##            site_S3!variance   0.1205   0.01875      6.4    pos
    ##            site_S3!rowf.cor   0.6394   0.06323     10    uncon
    
    # Add site:test
    m2 <- update(m1, random=~. + site:test)
    m2$loglik
    ## [1] -310.8794
    
    # CORUH structure on the site component of site:test
    m3 <- asreml(yield ~ site + check:site, data=dat,
                 random = ~ at(site):colf + at(site,3):rowf + corh(site):test,
                 residual = ~ dsum( ~ ar1(colf):ar1(rowf) +
                                      id(colf):ar1(rowf) | site,
                                   levels=list(1:2, 3)  ))
    m3$loglik
    ## [1] -288.4837
    
    # Unstructured genetic variance matrix
    m4 <- asreml(yield ~ site + check:site, data=dat,
                 random = ~ at(site):colf + at(site,3):rowf + us(site):test,
                 residual = ~ dsum( ~ ar1(colf):ar1(rowf) +
                                      id(colf):ar1(rowf) | site,
                                   levels=list(1:2, 3)  ))
    m4$loglik
    ## [1] -286.8239
  
    # Note that a 3x3 unstructured matrix can be written LL'+Psi with 1 factor L
    # Explicitly fit the factor analytic model
    m5 <- asreml(yield ~ site + check:site, data=dat,
                 random = ~ at(site):colf + at(site,3):rowf
                 + fa(site,1, init=c(.7,.1,.1,.5,.3,.2)):test,
                 residual = ~ dsum( ~ ar1(colf):ar1(rowf) +
                                      id(colf):ar1(rowf) | site,
                                   levels=list(1:2, 3)  ))
    m5$loglik # Same as m4
    ## [1] -286.8484
    
    # Model 4, Unstructured (symmetric) genetic variance matrix
    un <- diag(3)
    un[upper.tri(un,TRUE)] <- m4$vparameters[5:10]
    round(un+t(un)-diag(diag(un)),3)
    ##       [,1]  [,2]  [,3]
    ## [1,] 0.992 0.158 0.132
    ## [2,] 0.158 0.073 0.078
    ## [3,] 0.132 0.078 0.122
    
    # Model 5, FA matrix = LL'+Psi.  Not quite the same as unstructured,
    # since the FA model fixes site 2 variance at 0.
    psi <- diag(m5$vparameters[5:7])
    lam <- matrix(m5$vparameters[8:10], ncol=1)
    round(tcrossprod(lam,lam)+psi,3)
    ##       [,1]  [,2]  [,3]
    ## [1,] 0.991 0.156 0.133
    ## [2,] 0.156 0.092 0.078
    ## [3,] 0.133 0.078 0.122
  }
  
} # }