Identification of crop cultivars with consistently high lignocellulosic sugar release requires the use of appropriate statistical design and modelling

Table 1 Details of the laboratory design

Trial	Number of cultivars processed^a	Number of samples per replicate block^b	Number of samples	Plates
2010	647	660	3,300	165
2011	856	900^c	4,480	224

^aTotal number of cultivars across all five replicate blocks; ^bincludes duplicated cultivars used as laboratory replicates; ^creplicate 1 had 880 samples.

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