sinapis {qgen}R Documentation

Paternal Half-sib Data from Sinapis arvensis

Description

Data from an experiment with paternal half-sibs. It allows to study the inheritance of leaf area and plant weight and the genetic correlation among this two characters.

Usage

data(sinapis)

Format

A data frame with 1100 observations on the following 7 variables.

fixedblock
a blocking factor with 3 levels
randomblock
a blocking factor without any levels
sire
a factor with 31 levels
dam
a factor with 3 levels (to be nested within sire)
individual
a factor with 1100 levels
environment
a factor with 2 levels ("cont" for control, "herb" for herbivory)
leafarea
numeric: the area of one leaf in (unit: square centimetre)
plantweight
numeric: the fresh weight of the above-ground plant parts (unit: gram)

Source

my phd thesis

Examples

data(sinapis)
## str(sinapis)

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