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At the core of your breeding programme
Surely you have been in this situation: meeting, there is coffee and biscuits at the back, some fruit if you’re… -
The not-so-glamourous part of my job
Grading, grading, grading… 90 Regression Modelling final exams. -
In between plant and animal breeding 1: economic weights
Unless you live in paradise and you have a single objective trait—so your whole breeding objective is “more X”—you have… -
Carbon
I am fascinated by trees, those cute and enormous organisms made out of air. The idea that I can hug… -
Even worse than pedigree errors: selecting for the wrong thing
Imagine this: you have been patiently assessing trees for wood density (selection criterion) thinking that you’re improving wood stiffness (objective… -
In between plant and animal breeding 1
Let’s start with the obvious: trees are plants and—unless you are breeding Ents—they do not walk around. Therefore, the first… -
Do I have pedigree errors?
We just finished a genetic analysis, got breeding values for all our selection criteria, combined them with genetic parameters and… -
How old is your favourite language?
We often forget for how long we’ve been writing code in specific languages. For example, I started using SAS in… -
All that glitters is not GxE interaction
We are going over the fifth version(*) of a manuscript with a Ph.D. student and colleagues, polishing some details before… -
Chromatic
皿 When in doubt, play chromatic Joe Pass