Management and use of international trial data for improving breeding efficiency

Book excerpt: Acronyms/abbreviations used in this report; Workshop participants; Initial discussion; Shaping the second revolution-an historical perspective on international trials; Statistical analysis of international yield trial data in ICARDA's cereal program; AMMI analysis of yield trialsLong-term similarity of environments in the ISWYN; Using the shifted multiplicative model (SHMM) to identify subsets of environments withoutgenotypic rank change: II. Clustering method; Analysis of internationalnursery data-results and implications for international nursery designUpdate on the data management systems (DMS) for the wheat program; Useof relational data bases in wheat breeding; Yield trial system/international nursery logistics; General discussion/conclusions/actions to betaken.