“…The macro-environmental variability can cause genotype ´ environment interaction (GEI) and can be evaluated with multi-environment trials (METs) across locations and years (Yan and Kang, 2003). Different approaches have been proposed to study GEI such as linear-bilinear models (Finlay and Wilkinson, 1963;Gauch, 1992;Yan et al, 2001;Crossa and Cornelius, 2002), mixed models (Piepho, 1998;Burgueño et al, 2008;Cullis et al, 2010), and crop growth models (Chapman, 2008;Technow et al, 2015;Malosetti et al, 2016). These methods have been extensively used for different breeding strategies including traditional phenotypic selection and testing (Yan et al, 2007;González-Barrios et al, 2017), quantitative trait loci mapping (Piepho, 2000;Malosetti et al, 2004;Mathews et al, 2008;Quero et al, 2014), genome-wide association mapping (van Eeuwijk et al, 2010;Locatelli et al, 2013;Gutiérrez et al, 2015;Racedo et al, 2016;Monteverde et al, 2018), and genomic selection (Burgueño et al, 2012;Lopez-Cruz et al, 2015;Lado et al, 2016).…”