Analysis of Series of Cultivar Trials with Perennial Grasses for Subdivided Target Regions

Field trials with perennial grasses may often be conducted at several locations with different starting years. A key issue in the analysis of such trials is the distinction between effects of calendar years, which are associated with external environmental variation, and harvest years, which represent internal yield formation processes of the perennial crop. Furthermore, analysis of field trials with perennial grasses needs to account for serial...