mean yield
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mean
adjective
uk/miːn/us/miːn/
mainly UK
not willing to give or share things, ...
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yield
noun[C usually plural]
uk/jiːld/us/jiːld/
an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced ...
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They found ameanyieldgain of 2.5% per generation over the mean of the parents.
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Meanyieldat the coastal site was twice that at the non-irrigated high-elevation site.
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Thus, ameanyieldof 1.6 t ha71 was assumed for this analysis.
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The highest-yielding organic farms reach themeanyieldlevel of the conventional farms.
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A visual representation of cultivar adaptation is achieved by plotting the regression coefficient of each cultivar against the cultivarmeanyieldacross all environments.
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Also, unlike external covariates, trialmeanyieldmust be estimated from the data themselves so is subject to error.
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These genotypes had the highestmeanyieldperformance.
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Velvet beanmeanyieldacross 46 locations was 1290 kg ha71 and ranged from 6500 to 100 kg ha71.
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G10 had the highestmeanyieldand is registered as commercial cultivar.
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Alternatively, the yield of each plant is expressed as proportion of themeanyieldof the surrounding plants, and those with the highest relative value are selected.
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Mixed model analyses of crop variety trials predictions may be possible since farmers have knowledge of the likelymeanyield(or range of yields) for their environment.
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These national average yields are generally lower than the mean yields of the crops grown in these rotations.
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As a result, the difference between mean yields for the rainy season and the dry season was not significant.
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Mean yields have been analysed over blocks for each variety rather than individual plot values.
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As is typical for field experiments, the mean yields were somewhat higher (averaging 300 kg/ha more) than those for farmers' fields.
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These were later maturing and had low mean yields.
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The impacts of physical (climate model) and biological (crop model) uncertainty on mean yields were generally comparable in magnitude.
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Estimated means for different years are later termed ' corrected mean yields according to regional changes'.
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