Heritability Estimates for 855 Maize Test Crosses Under Water Stress in Kenya

A 17.5 KB Excel file published by Goshime Muluneh Mekasha on figshare in June 2026. It contains additive variance component and narrow sense heritability estimates for maize genetics. The data covers 855 test crosses and 6 checks evaluated under both water stress and optimal rain-fed environments in Kenya.

Use Cases

• Modeling drought tolerance in maize based on heritability estimates.
• Comparing genetic performance under water stress versus optimal conditions.
• Selecting breeding lines based on additive variance component data.
• Assessing environmental interaction effects on crop genetics.

Strengths

• Contains data for a specific and sizable sample of 855 test crosses.
• Provides comparative data from two distinct environmental conditions: water stress and optimal rain-fed.
• The dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (17.5 KB), suggesting limited scope or summary statistics only.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 17:38:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kenya