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This dataset comes from the European Union project DROPS (DROught-tolerant yielding PlantS). A panel of 256 maize hybrids was grown with two water regimes (irrigated or rainfed), in seven fields in 2012 and 2013, respectively, spread along a climatic transect from western to eastern Europe, plus one site in Chile in 2013. This resulted in 28 experiments defined as the combination of one year, one site and one water regime, with two and three repetitions for rainfed and irrigated treatments, respectively. A detailed environmental characterisation was carried out, with hourly records of micrometeorological data and soil water status, and associated with precise measurement of phenology. Grain yield and its components were measured at the end of the experiment.
10 experiments have been selected from the full data set, two for each of the five main environmental scenarios that were identified in the data. The scenarios have been added to the data as well as a classification of the genotypes in four genetic groups.

The data.frame contains the raw phenotypic data per experiment (Location × year × water regime), one value per individual plot and outliers have been removed.

A data.frame with 6499 rows and 25 columns.

Experiment

experiments ID described by the three first letters of the city’s name followed by the year of experiment and the water regime with W for watered and R for rain-fed.

Site

location where the experiment was performed

year

year in which the experiment was performed

plotId

plot identifier (when available)

treatment

targeted water regime

Code_ID, Variety_ID, Accession_ID

identifier of the genotype

Replicate, block

experimental design factors

Row, Column

2D coordinates of each plot

grain.yield

genotypic mean for yield adjusted at 15\ in ton per hectare (t ha^-1)

grain.number

genotypic mean for number of grain per square meter

grain.weight

genotypic mean for individual grain weight in milligram (mg)

anthesis

genotypic mean for male flowering (pollen shed), in thermal time cumulated since emergence (d_20°C)

silking

genotypic mean for female flowering (silking emergence), in thermal time cumulated since emergence (d_20°C)

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plant.height

genotypic mean for plant height, from ground level to the base of the flag leaf (highest) leaf in centimeter (cm)

tassel.height

genotypic mean for plant height including tassel, from ground level to the highest point of the tassel in centimeter (cm)

ear.height

genotypic mean for ear insertion height, from ground level to ligule of the highest ear leaf in centimeter (cm)

Lat

The latitude of the location where the experiment was performed

Long

The longitude of the location where the experiment was performed

scenarioWater

water scenario for the experiment, well watered (WW) or water deficit (WD)

scenarioTemp

temperature scenario for the experiment, Cool, Hot or Hot(Day)

scenarioFull

the full scenario for the experiment, a combination of scenarioWater and scenarioTemp

geneticGroup

the genetic group to which the genotype belongs

Usage

dropsRaw

Format

An object of class data.frame with 6486 rows and 26 columns.

References

Millet, E. J., Pommier, C., et al. (2019). A multi-site experiment in a network of European fields for assessing the maize yield response to environmental scenarios (Data set). doi:10.15454/IASSTN