An In-Depth Presentation of the ‘rhoneycomb’ R Package to Construct and Analyze Field-Experimentation ‘Honeycomb Selection Designs’

The Honeycomb Selection Design (HSD) is an innovative experimental method whose main feature the even and systematic entry arrangement. Its systematicity, if combined with absence of inter-plant competition that maximizes phenotypic expression differentiation individual plants, enables implementation single-plant selection as early initial generations genetic segregation, facilitating plant breeders to identify superior genotypes. Due specificity allocation complexity statistical data analysis, a specialized software becomes necessary. This article provides detailed presentation ‘rhoneycomb’, free open-source R package concerning construction, visualization, analysis HSDs.