Genetic Study of Plant Mixtures

Fit linear mixed models dedicated to the genetic study of plant mixtures, such as those based on general and specific mixing abilities (GMA-SMA) as well as direct and social breeding values (DBV-SBV), also known as direct and indirect genetic effects (DGE-IGE). More details in Forst et al (2019, ) for GMA-SMA models, and Salomon et al (2026, ) for DBV-SBV models. The package also provides functions to optimize experimental designs, simulate data sets and compute interaction indices.

title: "plantmix" date: "26/05/2026"

Overview

plantmix is an R package dedicated to the genetic study of plant mixtures.

This software is available under a free software license, the GNU Affero General Public License (version 3 and later); see the COPYING file. The copyright is owned by INRAE.

Installation

Download the package as a .tar.gz archive, open the R console and execute the following command:

install.packages("path/to/plantmix_<version>.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source")

Usage

Open the R console and execute the following commands:

library(plantmix)
?plantmix
help(package="plantmix")
browseVignettes("plantmix")

Citation

As the authors invested time and effort in creating this software, please cite it.

Open the R console and execute the following command:

citation(package="plantmix")

Issues

When encountering a problem with the package, you can send an email to the maintainer.

maintainer("plantmix")

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing, send an email to the maintainer.

maintainer("plantmix")