The significance for breeding of linear regression analysis of genotype-environment interactions.
Methods of regression analysis of genotype-environment interaction are considered in relation to existing theory dealing with the relative efficiencies of selection for general or specific adaptation to the environment, and the choice of environments for assessment. The two alternative models is involving regression on to environmental effects (model 2) or genotypic effects (model 3) are equivalent when regression lines are concurrent, but are shown to be mutually exclusive when concurrence is absent...
D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D004777:Environment; D005838:Genotype; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013223:Statistics as Topic