Predicting the relative effectiveness of direct versus indirect selection for oat yield in three types of stress environments |
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| Authors: | Gary N Atlin Kenneth J Frey |
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| Institution: | (1) Dept. of Agronomy, Iowa State Univ., 50011 Ames, IA, USA;(2) Present address: Biotechnica Canada Inc., 170, 6815-8 Street N.E., T2E 7H7 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Summary In breeding crop varieties for stress environments, it must be decided whether to select directly, in the presence of stress, or indirectly, in a nonstress environment. The relative effectiveness of these two strategies depends upon the genetic correlation (r
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) between yield in stress and nonstress environments and upon heritability in each. These parameters were estimated for grain yield of 116 random oat lines grown in nonstress, P-deficient, N-deficient, and late-planted environments. Estimates of r
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between yield in nonstress and yield in P-deficient, N-deficient, and late-planted environments were 0.52±0.24, 1.08±0.16, and 0.06±0.24, respectively. No consistent relationship between heritability and environment mean yield was observed. Direct selection in the presence of stress was predicted to be superior for yield in low-P and late-planted environments, but indirect selection in high-N environments was predicted to be as effective as direct selection in producing yield gain in low-N environments. These results confirm that neither high-yield environments nor environments in which the heritability of yield is maximized are necessarily optimum when the goal is to maximize yield gain in stress environments.Dep. of Agronomy, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011; USA, Journal Paper no. 13101. Project 2447. |
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| Keywords: | Avena stativa oat genetic correlation genotype × environment interaction heat stress N-deficiency P-deficiency components of variance |
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