Abstract
Red–yellow (Pisum fulvum Sibth. et Sm.) and Ethiopian (Pisum abyssinicum A. Br.) peas have become of increasing interest to breeders in the last decade, as they have been found to be partially or completely tolerant to various biotic stresses, such as to attack by pea weevil, mildew blight or rust. A trial was carried out at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops at Rimski Šančevi from 2005 to 2007, with 13 accessions each of red–yellow and Ethiopian peas sown at 100 viable seeds m−2, in plots of 0.5 m2. Seed yield per plant in red–yellow pea was significantly and positively correlated with seed number per plant (r = 0.881**), pod number per plant (r = 0.839**) and number of fertile nodes (r = 0.820**). The highest positive correlation among the agronomic characteristics in Ethiopian pea was between number of fertile nodes and number of pods (r = 0.937**). Seed yield in Ethiopian pea was highly significantly correlated with number of seeds (r = 0.807**), pods (r = 0.692*), and fertile nodes (r = 0.638*). The results suggest that plant morphology of the progenies between red–yellow or Ethiopian peas and grain-type common pea could not differ significantly from that of individual parents. That means that it could be possible to develop hybrid lines that could keep the desirable morphological traits of grain-type common pea, such as lodging-tolerance and high seed yields, and to make an introgression of a specific resistance from wild pea taxa, especially by back-crosses with the former. However, one must always be aware of unpredicted outcomes as a result of rather different genetic basis of individual seed yield components.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Abdi H (2010) Holm’s sequential Bonferroni procedure. In: Salkind NJ, Dougherty DM, Frey B (eds) Encyclopedia of research design. Sage, Thousand Oaks, pp 573–577
Akopian J, Sarukhanyan N, Gabrielyan I, Vanyan A, Mikić A, Smýkal P, Kenicer G, Vishnyakova M, Sinjushin A, Demidenko N, Ambrose M (2010) Reports on establishing an ex situ site for ‘beautiful’ vavilovia (Vavilovia formosa) in Armenia. Genet Resour Crop Evol 57:1127–1134
Byrne OMT (2005) Incorporation of pea weevil resistance from wild pea (Pisum fulvum) into cultivated field pea (Pisum sativum). PhD thesis. The University of Western Australia, p 150
Byrne OM, Hardie DC, Khan TN, Speijers J, Yan G (2008) Genetic analysis of pod and seed resistance to pea weevil in a Pisum sativum × P. fulvum interspecific cross. Aust J Agric Res 59:854–862
Coyne CJ, Brown AF, Timmerman-Vaughan GM, McPhee KE, Grusak MA (2005) USDA-ARS refined pea core collection for 26 quantitative traits. Pisum Genet 37:1–4
Ćupina B, Mihailović V, Mikić A, Erić P, Krstić Đ (2008) Evaluation of seed yield components in Ethiopian pea (Pisum sativum subsp. abyssinicum (A. Braun) Govorov). In: Annicchiarico P, Bochard AM, Ellis N, Mikić A, Ramos Monreal Á, Smýkal P, Warkentin T, Winter P (eds) Book of Abstracts of the Second Grain Legumes Technology Transfer Platform (GL-TTP) Workshop, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad—GL-TTP, Paris, pp 36–37
Ehrman T, Maxted N (1990) Ecogeographic survey and collection of Syrian Vicieae and Cicereae (Leguminosae). Plant Genet Resour Newsl 77:1–8
Errico A, Conicella C, Taliercio U (2006) Cytological and morphological characterization of Pisum sativum and Pisum fulvum tetraploids. Plant Breed 106:141–148
Fondevilla S, Ávila CM, Cubero JI, Rubiales D (2005) Response to Mycosphaerella pinodes in a germplasm collection of Pisum spp. Plant Breed 124:313–315
Fondevilla S, Carver TLW, Moreno MT, Rubiales D (2007a) Identification and characterization of sources of resistance to Erysiphe pisi Syd. in Pisum spp. Plant Breed 126:113–119
Fondevilla S, Torres AM, Moreno MT, Rubiales D (2007b) Identification of a new gene for resistance to powdery mildew in Pisum fulvum, a wild relative of pea. Breed Sci 57:181–184
Fondevilla S, Rubiales D, Moreno MT, Torres AM (2008) Identification and validation of RAPD and SCAR markers linked to the gene Er3 conferring resistance to Erysiphe pisi DC. in pea. Mol Breed 22:193–200
Jing R, Vershinin A, Grzebyta J, Shaw P, Smýkal P, Marshall D, Ambrose MJ, Ellis THN, Flavell AJ (2010) The genetic diversity and evolution of field pea (Pisum) studied by high throughput retrotransposon based insertion polymorphism (RBIP) marker analysis. BMC Evol Biol 10:44
Kosev V, Pachev I (2010) Correlations among some characteristics in field pea. Field Veg Crop Res 47:473–478
Kosterin OE, Bogdanova VS (2008) Relationship of wild and cultivated forms of Pisum L. as inferred from an analysis of three markers, of the plastid, mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. Genet Resour Crop Evol 55:735–755
Mattatia J (1977) Amphicarpy and variability in P. fulvum. Bot Not 130:27–34
Maxted N, Ambrose M (2001) Peas (Pisum L.). In: Maxted N, Bennet SJ (eds) Plant genetic resources of legumes in the Mediterranean. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 181–190
Mihailović V, Mikić A, Ćupina B (2004) Botanical and agronomic classification of fodder pea (Pisum sativum L.). Acta Agric Serb 17(special issue):61–65
Mihailović V, Mikić A, Katić S, Karagić Đ, Pataki I (2008) Grain yield components in afila (af) lines of field pea (Pisum sativum L.). In: Annicchiarico P, Bochard AM, Ellis N, Mikić A, Ramos Monreal Á, Smýkal P, Warkentin T, Winter P (eds) Book of abstracts of the second grain legumes technology transfer platform (GL-TTP) workshop, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad—GL-TTP, Paris, pp 98–99
Mihailović V, Mikić A, Ćupina B, Krstić Đ, Milošević B (2009a) Genetic resources of field pea in Serbia. Pisum Genet 41:44–45
Mihailović V, Mikić A, Katić S, Karagić Đ (2009b) Forage and dry pea (Pisum sativum) breeding in Serbia. Pisum Genet 41:26–28
Mihailović V, Warkentin T, Mikić A, Ćupina B (2009c) Challenges for forage pea breeders. Grain Legum 52:20–21
Mikić A (2008) Genetic variability of agronomic characteristics of common vetch (Vicia sativa L.). MSc thesis. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, p 72
Mikić A, Mihailović V, Ćupina B, Jovićević D, Milić D, Krstić Đ (2008) Evaluation of seed yield components in red–yellow pea (Pisum fulvum Sm.). In: Annicchiarico P, Bochard AM, Ellis N, Mikić A, Ramos Monreal Á, Smýkal P, Warkentin T, Winter P (eds) Book of abstracts of the second grain legumes technology transfer platform (GL-TTP) workshop, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad—GL-TTP, Paris, pp 34–35
Mikić A, Smykal P, Kenicer G, Sarukhanyan N, Akopian J, Gabrielyan I, Vanyan A, Sinjushin A, Demidenko N, Ćupina B, Mihailović V, Vishnyakova M, Ambrose M (2010) Achievements in research on vavilovia (Vavilovia formosa (Stev.) Fed.), a legume crop wild relative. Field Veg Crop Res 47:387–394
Mikić A, Mihailović V, Ćupina B, Kosev V, Warkentin T, McPhee K, Ambrose M, Hofer J, Ellis N (2011) Genetic background and agronomic value of leaf types in pea (Pisum sativum). Ratar Povrt/Field Veg Crop Res 48:275–284
Ochatt SJ, Benabdelmouna A, Marget P, Aubert G, Moussy F, Pontcaille C, Jacas L (2004) Overcoming hybridization barriers between pea and some of its wild relatives. Euphytica 137:353–359
Smýkal P, Kenicer G, Flavell AJ, Kosterin O, Ellis THN, Ambrose MJ (2009) Morphological and molecular relationships in Pisum L. Grain Legum 52:22–23
Smýkal P, Kenicer G, Flavell AJ, Corander J, Kosterin O, Redden RJ, Ford R, Coyne CJ, Maxted N, Ambrose MJ, Ellis THN (2011) Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus. Plant Genet Res Charact Util 9:4–18
Türk M, Albayrak S, Çelik N (2007) Estimates of broad-sense heritability for seed yield and yield components of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Turk J Agric For 31:155–158
Weeden NF (2007) Genetic changes accompanying the domestication of Pisum sativum: is there a common genetic basis to the ‘domestication syndrome’ for legumes? Ann Bot 100:1017–1025
Weeden NF, Brauner S, Przyborowski JA (2002) Genetic analysis of pod dehiscence in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Cell Mol Biol Lett 7(2B):657–663
Yücel C (2004) Correlation and path coefficient analyses of seed yield components in the Narbon bean (Vicia narbonensis L.). Turk J Agric For 28:371–376
Zamir D (2001) Improving plant breeding with exotic genetic libraries. Nat Rev Genet 2:983–989
Zeven AC, Zhukovsky PM (1975) Dictionary of cultivated plants and their centres of diversity. Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation, Wageningen
Zlatković B, Mikić A, Smýkal P (2010) Distribution and new records of Pisum sativum subsp. elatius in Serbia. Pisum Genet 42:15–17
Acknowledgments
This research is a part of the PhD Thesis of Aleksandar Mikić, entitled ‘Genetic analysis of hybrid progenies between protein (P. sativum L.) and red–yellow pea (P. fulvum Sm.)’, submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad.
The results of this research are also an outcome of the following three projects: 1) the Projects TR-20090 and TR31024 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia; 2) the ECO-NET Project 18817 (2008–2009), between France, Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and 3) the Project LEG-HIVER (2010–2011), between France and Serbia.
The accessions of red–yellow and Ethiopian peas were kindly donated by the Institute of Plant Genetics in Poznań, Poland, John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben, Germany, Interrnational Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas in Aleppo, Syria, and N.I. Vavilov All-Russia Research Institute of Plant Industry in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The authors are sincerely grateful to Noel Ellis and Scott Laidlaw for their essential support.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Mikić, A., Mihailović, V., Dimitrijević, M. et al. Evaluation of seed yield and seed yield components in red–yellow (Pisum fulvum) and Ethiopian (Pisum abyssinicum) peas. Genet Resour Crop Evol 60, 629–638 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-012-9862-2
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-012-9862-2