{"title":"ESTABLISHING ACCEPTABLE LIMITS TO FLUE-CURED TOBACCO PERFORMANCE TRIALS","authors":"D. Bowman","doi":"10.3381/14-040R.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Crop performance trials are conducted in nearly every state as part of the land-grant mission. These trials have been conducted for flue-cured tobacco in the southeastern United States since 1954 and continue today. Even though the trials are conducted in a scientific manner, they are subject to variability caused by management and natural causes like diseases and insects. This article looks at the variability of 3 measurements from the North Carolina Official Flue-Cured Tobacco Variety Trials from 1981 through 2001. Yield, grade index, and dollar value per hectare ($/ha) were examined with the use of a procedure developed for other crops. First the relationship between error and mean was established. For these 3 traits there were no relationships between error and mean. A pooled (average) variance was calculated and then a maximum allowable variance was determined by multiplying the pooled variance by 2. Six out of 112 environments had questionable accuracy for yield; there were 7 questionable environmen...","PeriodicalId":10257,"journal":{"name":"中国烟草科学","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"中国烟草科学","FirstCategoryId":"1091","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3381/14-040R.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Crop performance trials are conducted in nearly every state as part of the land-grant mission. These trials have been conducted for flue-cured tobacco in the southeastern United States since 1954 and continue today. Even though the trials are conducted in a scientific manner, they are subject to variability caused by management and natural causes like diseases and insects. This article looks at the variability of 3 measurements from the North Carolina Official Flue-Cured Tobacco Variety Trials from 1981 through 2001. Yield, grade index, and dollar value per hectare ($/ha) were examined with the use of a procedure developed for other crops. First the relationship between error and mean was established. For these 3 traits there were no relationships between error and mean. A pooled (average) variance was calculated and then a maximum allowable variance was determined by multiplying the pooled variance by 2. Six out of 112 environments had questionable accuracy for yield; there were 7 questionable environmen...