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Using crop simulation to generate genotype by environment interaction effects for sorghum in water-limited environments

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Chapman, S. C., Cooper, M. and Hammer, G. L. (2002) Using crop simulation to generate genotype by environment interaction effects for sorghum in water-limited environments. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 53 (4). pp. 379-389. ISSN 1836-0947

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Article Link: https://doi.org/10.1071/AR01070

Abstract

Multi-environment trials (METs) used to evaluate breeding lines vary in the number of years that they sample. We used a cropping systems model to simulate the target population of environments (TPE) for 6 locations over 108 years for 54 ‘near-isolines’ of sorghum in north-eastern Australia. For a single reference genotype, each of 547 trials was clustered into 1 of 3 ‘drought environment types’ (DETs) based on a seasonal water stress index. Within sequential METs of 2 years duration, the frequencies of these drought patterns often differed substantially from those derived for the entire TPE. This was reflected in variation in the mean yield of the reference genotype. For the TPE and for 2-year METs, restricted maximum likelihood methods were used to estimate components of genotypic and genotype by environment variance. These also varied substantially, although not in direct correlation with frequency of occurrence of different DETs over a 2-year period. Combined analysis over different numbers of seasons demonstrated the expected improvement in the correlation between MET estimates of genotype performance and the overall genotype averages as the number of seasons in the MET was increased.

Item Type:Article
Subjects:Agriculture > Agriculture (General) > Agricultural education > Research. Experimentation
Plant culture > Field crops > Sorghum
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