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

Table 5 Summary of the REML estimates of variance components and the corresponding percent of total variation

Variance component^a	2010 trial	Percent (%)	2011 trial	Percent (%)
Field
F block	54.0	20.5	0.7	0.7
F column	2.1	0.8	0.8	0.9
F row	0.4	0.2
F row x F column	16.8	6.4	19.1	20.6
Field Total	73.3	27.9	20.6	22.2
Laboratory
L day	32.2	12.2	1.6	1.8
L day x L plate	28.3	10.8	10.0	10.7
L plate x L plot	37.5	14.2	18.3	19.6
L column	4.1	1.6	4.8	5.1
L row	12.8	4.9	8.5	9.1
L plate x L column			2.7	3.0
L plate x L row	32.5	12.4	7.4	8.0
L row x L column	1.6	0.6	0.7	0.8
Laboratory Total	149.0	56.7	54.0	58.1
Cultivar	13.5	5.1	6.9	7.4
Residual	27.4	10.4	11.5	12.3

^aVariance components for sugar release using model C, Table 2. REML, residual maximum likelihood; x, represents an interaction between terms.

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