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H3 – Accelerating next generation plant breeding decisions
H3 is a unique partnership between, Biometris (Wageningen University), VSNi and The James Hutton Institute. Together the partnership provides expertise, new statistical techniques and market-leading software that can be customized to enhance your breeding pipeline.
H3 offers selectable and componentized statistical genetic pipelines to help plant breeders make the next generation plant breeding decisions. We use the latest innovative statistics and methodologies to drive a new generation of plants to achieve your breeding goals. Our focus is on powerful and accurate data analytics with proven methodologies to identify the most promising plant genetics in the shortest timeframe, all supported by world renowned practising statisticians, bioinformaticians and bioscientists.
Driving a new generation of plants
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Pipeline modules offered
The diagram below features the modules where we can offer our expertise. H3 can advise and implement strategies on any one of these areas or multiple modules depending on your objectives. The modularity of the pipeline allows easy adaptation to specific user requirements. We can also review your entire pipeline and then make recommendations on improvements in areas where required.
Take a look through our pipeline and hover over each module for more details
Power your decision making
For plant breeders, new data generating techniques in the field of genotyping, phenotyping, omics data and envirotyping present new opportunities for increasing the efficiency of breeding programs.
H3 helps plant breeders use new statistical techniques and software to support better breeding decisions by offering:
A wide variety of experimental designs that allow precise estimation of genotypic effects and contrasts while correcting for noise factors.
A powerful map construction algorithm that efficiently produces genetic maps for biparental and multi-parental populations.
Exploration and quantification of genetic diversity and distances using sequence, molecular marker and phenotypic data. A preparation for later genotype-to-phenotype modelling.
Extensive suite of methods and visualizations to deal with the major problem in plant breeding and evolutionary biology: genotype by environment interaction.
A powerful mixed model-based approach to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for whichever kind of breeding population, mating type, ploidy level, number of traits and environments.
Data fusion and integration of high throughput genotyping, phenotyping, omics data and environmental characterization data.
Decision support for selection of superior genotypes and crossing partners.
Visualization tools to support reporting and decision making.
Quantitative genetic analyses for all types of breeding populations that deliver estimates for important statistical genetic parameters such as repeatabilities, heritabilities, and genetic and environmental variances, covariances, and correlations.
Why Should You Choose H3 For Your Plant Breeding Analysis?
Together the H3 consortium are world leaders in the advancement of data analysis and statistical solutions for the plant breeding sector. Our plant analysis software and trusted expertise is used across the globe in a variety of specialist fields. Find out what else we have to offer by viewing our case studies
The H3 consortium
Drawing on our complementary world-class expertise, tools and experience in plant breeding, analytics and visualization, Biometris, VSNi and The James Hutton Institute have come together to build H3.
Wageningen University
Wageningen University and Research (WUR) is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. WUR offer unparalleled resource and expertise in bioscience and statistical genetics. Biometris is the central group for mathematics and statistics at WUR. As well as providing courses for WUR students in statistics, mathematics and research methodology, Biometris also provides statistical, mathematical and methodological research and consultancy for industry.
Our experts and team members
Salvador Gezan
Statistical Genetics Consultant
Salvador Gezan is statistician/quantitative geneticists with more than 20 years of experience in breeding, statistical analysis and genetic improvement consulting. He currently is an Statistical Genetics Consultant at VSNi, United Kingdom. He started his career at Rothamsted Research UK as a biometrician where he worked with GenStat and ASReml. Over the last 15 years he has taught for companies and university researchers many ASReml workshops around the world.
Contact Us
For more information on how H3 can help your breeding program, please get in touch.
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