GENOTYPIC STABILITY AND PHENOTYPIC ADAPTABILITY FOR SOME YIELD TRAITS IN SOME LONG STAPLE COTTON GENOTYPES
Abstract: The development of genotypes, which can be adapted to a wide range of diversified environments, is the ultimate goal of plant breeders in a crop improvement program. A multilocation experiment was performed to study genotype by environment interaction (GEI) using different stability parameters. Twenty two genotypes obtained from the Egyptian cotton breeding programme, besides two check varieties were evaluated for seed cotton yield and lint yield stability under five locations in the Delta region of Egypt. The results showed that variances due to genotypes, environments and genotype x environment interaction were highly significant for both traits, which indicated that these genotypes interacted differentially with environments. The environmental variation caused more than 60% of the total variance on these genotypes, while the genotypes variations cause 3.96% and 4.341% for seed cotton yield and lint yield, respectively. Seven stability parameters were used to determine stability of these genotypes. The Genotypes; G6, G9, G18 G19, G20, G22 and G23 were the most stable genotypes across these different methods,(and some of them could be recommended for farthen use in the breeding programme). Also, these Genotypes showed high sustainability index ranged from 76% to 90% for both traits which indicate that these genotypes were stable across the environments and characterized with wide adaptability and high mean performance. The Spearman's correlation coefficients between the two yield traits and seven stability parameters were insignificant except, with ecovalence (W 2 i) model which was highly significant and positive. Within the parameters, most of them showed highly significant positive correlation with each other, indicating that these measures have similar aspects of stability.
Publication year 2015
Pages 85-100
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Author(s) from ARC
Publication Type Journal
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