Climate change calls for novel approaches to include environmental effects in future breeding programs forage crops. A set of ryegrasses (Lolium) varieties was evaluated multiple European environments crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. lolii) and stem (P. graminis graminicola) resistance. Additive Main Effect Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI) analysis revealed significant genotype (G) environ...

Multi-environment trials are routinely conducted in plant breeding to select candidates for the next selection cycle. In this study, we compare the prediction accuracy of four developed genomic-enabled prediction models: (1) single-environment, main genotypic effect model (SM); (2) multi-environment, main genotypic effects model (MM); (3) multi-environment, single variance G×E deviation model (...

Agent technology is emerging as an important software engineering paradigm for the 21st century. This paper describes some pioneering work carried out at BT Laboratories on how agents can be applied to the domain of electronic commerce and in particular to the area of advanced trading. The principal benefits and issues are outlined. The paper concludes with a look at future plans to develop add...

Here we investigate an instance of the abstract problem of pattern recognition under mismatch conditions: Models of phenomena are built with data collected in the training environment but must be used to recognize the same phenomena in another environment. The speciic problem is speaker veriication, where the training and testing data for each speaker can come from one of many diierent micropho...

Agent-oriented programming is being thought as the next generation programming paradigm after the object-oriented programming. A multi-agent environment, MAGE, will be introduced in this paper, which is a platform for rapidly developing distributed, heterogeneous multi-agent systems. What MAGE provides includes a general running framework for agents,an agent description language(ADL),an agent c...

tomato as a highly nutritious vegetable crop is widely grown in the world. hybrid seed is preferably used for tomato production. identification of superior hybrid combination is one of the most important steps in the hybrid breeding programs. breeding of high yielding hybrids is expensive and involves testing large numbers of hybrid combinations in multi-environment trials. successful predictio...

The challenges regarding seamless integration of distributed, heterogeneous and multilevel data arising in the context of contemporary, post-genomic clinical trials cannot be effectively addressed with current methodologies. An urgent need exists to access data in a uniform manner, to share information among different clinical and research centers, and to store data in secure repositories assur...