Biometrics in Plant Breeding
The terms “Biometrics” and “Biometry” have been used since early in the 20th century to refer to the field of development of statistical and mathematical methods applicable to data analysis problems in the biological sciences (https://www.biometricsociety.org/about/what-is-biometry). Plant breeding is an important area for application of biometrical methods.
The Section “Biometrics in Plant breeding” holds section meetings every three yeas. The purpose of these meetings is to highlight the latest developments and advances of statistical and computational methods for the design and analysis of data needed and arising in plant breeding programs.
Topics that were covered in recent meetings include, but are not limited to:
- Stability, resilience and risk analysis
- Envirotyping, enviromics, modelling genotype-environment interaction using environmental covariates
- High-throughput phenotyping
- Phenomic and genomic prediction
- Design of experiments (single trials and multi-environment trials), sparse testing
- Bayesian methods
- Multi-omics data
- Remote sensing data
- Genetic and genomic modelling
- Managing genetic diversity
- Assessing long-term genetic gains
- Artificial intelligence and machine (statistical) learning methods
The last two conferences were held in Paris in 2022 (https://eucarpiabiom22.sciencesconf.org/) and in Edinburgh in 2025 (https://highlanderlab.github.io/EUCARPIA2025BiometricsPlantBreeding/). The next meeting is scheduled to be held in Göttingen in 2028.
Section Leader
Hans-Peter Piepho (Germany)
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