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Upland rice breeding in Brazil: a simultaneous genotypic evaluation of stability, adaptability and grain yield

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The relative performance of one genotype is not identical in different environments due to genotype-environment interaction (G×E). Thus, for a breeding program to successfully develop cultivars, it is fundamental that candidate elite-lines are tested in several target environments and that the data are analysed for yield, adaptability and stability. The objective of this work was to study the G×E for upland rice using a mixed model and, using the harmonic mean of relative performance of genotypic values (HMRPGV) method, to analyse cultivars and elite-lines over time to identify those that aggregate high grain yield (GY) with high genotypic adaptability and stability. A large dataset of “value for cultivation and use trials” collected by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and collaborators from 1984 to 2010, involving seven states that represent upland rice crops in the Midwest, North and Northeast regions of Brazil, was used. The effect of location was shown to be more important than the effect of year for promoting crossover interaction. The CNA 8555 had the best GY associated with adaptability and stability, presenting a superiority of 13.28 % above the general mean of all elite-lines. Using already-released cultivars and potential elite-lines, the generalised linear regression analysis revealed significant progress of the stability and adaptability associated with GY over time. The HMRPGV method was shown to be an important tool and allowed identification of three elite-lines in the Embrapa pipeline (AB 062008, AB 062041 and AB 062037), each with high stability, adaptability and yield potential to be released commercially.

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Abbreviations

BLUP:

Best linear unbiased predictor

REML:

Restricted maximum likelihood

GY:

Grain yield

VCU:

Value for cultivation and use

G×E:

Genotype-environment interaction

G×L:

Genotype-location interaction

G×Y:

Genotype-year interaction

G×L×Y:

Genotype-location-year interaction

HMRPGV:

Harmonic mean of relative performance of genotypic values

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We thank the entire rice breeding team of Embrapa, especially the research assistants and field workers who performed the VCU trials and collected the data used in our study.

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  1. Embrapa Rice and Beans, BP 179, Santo Antônio de Goiás, GO, Brazil

    José Manoel Colombari Filho, Orlando Peixoto de Morais, Adriano Pereira de Castro, Élcio Perpétuo Guimarães & Flávio Breseghello

  2. Embrapa Forests, BP 319, Colombo, PR, Brazil

    Marcos Deon Vilela de Resende

  3. Embrapa Mid-North, BP 01, Teresina, PI, Brazil

    José Almeida Pereira

  4. Embrapa Rondonia, BP 405, Vilhena, RO, Brazil

    Marley Marico Utumi

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Colombari Filho, J.M., de Resende, M.D.V., de Morais, O.P. et al. Upland rice breeding in Brazil: a simultaneous genotypic evaluation of stability, adaptability and grain yield. Euphytica 192, 117–129 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-013-0922-2

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