Abstract
The production of winter oilseed rape (WOSR) (Brassica napus) together with increasing seed yields per hectare is one of the strategies for breeding the genetic base of oilseed rape genotypes adapted to different environments. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the genotypic performance of 25 winter oilseed rape genotypes using mixed models. The plant material was examined in five locations in Poland. Field trials were carried out in a randomized complete block design with four replicates. The REML/BLUP was used to estimate genetic parameters. Selection of genotypes was made on the basis of genetic values by the harmonic mean of relative performance these parameters. The mean heritability for genotype had an average value at a high accuracy of selection, while additionally it facilitated selection of agronomically superior individuals. Three restorer lines PN18, PN17 and PN21, CMS ogura line PN64 as well as hybrids PN66 × PN21 and PN64 × PN21 characterized good adaptability and stability of seed yield. There were similarities among the statistics (\(\hat{\mu } + \hat{g}\)), adaptability and stability of genetic values in the discrimination of the most productive genotypes by best linear unbiased predictor analysis. Mixed models can be recommended as a potential selection method for the inclusion of new plant material in different oilseed rape breeding programs aimed at developing new WOSR cultivars.
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Introduction
Winter oilseed rape (WOSR, rapeseed, canola) (Brassica napus L.) is the most important oil and protein crop in Europe. In Poland in 2017 the cultivated area was 914 thousand ha with an average seed yield of 2950 t ha−1 (www.fao.org.2019). Double-low quality cultivars with zero erucic acid and low glucosinolate contents are a source of the healthiest vegetable oils with a balanced fatty acid composition (Szydłowska-Czerniak et al. 2011). Its oil is also used as a green biofuel, an animal feed component and a valuable material for many products in chemical and pharmaceutical industries (lubricants, hydraulic oils, soap and biodegradable plastics) (Friedt and Snowdon 2009; Huang et al. 2016). The residual meal from oilseed rape seeds after oil extraction provides a protein-rich (38–44%) animal feed. Thanks to its nutritional value oilseed rape may be considered as an alternative source of protein to replace soya in countries with moderate climate, such as Poland. This meal represents a favorable composition of amino acids, including comparatively high contents of the essential sulfuric amino acids: methionine and cysteine (Downey and Bell 1991). In addition, the meal is rich in minerals, particularly Ca, Mg and P, and contains vitamins B4 and E (Thies 1994).
The constantly growing demand for high-quality human food and animal feed is a challenge for researchers, farmers and food producers. The main objective in many WOSR breeding programs is to develop high yielding cultivars, with satisfactory resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and good seed quality traits (oil and protein contents, fatty acid composition as well as low glucosinolate and fiber levels) (Körber et al. 2016). Many traits of agronomic importance are controlled by multiple genes of small effect, while their phenotypic expressions is strongly affected by non-genetic factors as well as genotype by environment interactions (Piepho 1994; Nowosad et al. 2016; Werner et al. 2018; Bocianowski et al. 2019a, 2020; Liersch et al. 2020).
In many plant species the multi-environmental analysis of breeding materials is extensively used for the characterization of germplasm collections from an agronomic point of view. Apart from the genotypes, the environment and the environment × genotype interactions also show information concerning the particular genotype variation in particular environment, as well as its adaptability and stability (Nowosad et al. 2017; Bocianowski et al. 2019b, c). Reliable performance prediction of combinations of parental lines (CMS ogura, restorer lines) is a key factor for success in F1 CMS ogura hybrid breeding programs (Werner et al. 2018). Testing of the response of parental lines and hybrids to diverse environmental conditions during growing seasons determines their essential traits (e.g. vigor, yield, yield-related traits or seed quality traits). Complex traits, such as e.g. seed yield, yield components and oil content in seeds are controlled by multiple genetic factors, which expression is the result of the interaction between the genotype and the environment. Studies on GEIs for agronomic traits in oilseed rape are frequent (Seyis et al. 2006; Nowosad et al. 2016; Bocianowski et al. 2019d). The aim of a breeding strategy in oilseed rape (parental forms of CMS ogura hybrids, semi-resythesized lines and genotypes with other quality traits) is to generate stable genotypes with the capacity to adapt to different soil and climatic conditions. Szała et al. (2019) and Spasibionek et al. (2020) reported that seed yields of CMS ogura F1 hybrids as well as WOSR breeding lines with a modified fatty acid composition of seed oil were the result of the effect of genotypes, the environment and their interactions. Additionally, Fletcher et al. (2015) indicated that Brassica napus lines should be grown under diverse growing conditions and different geographies to understand the role of the environment in agronomically important traits and their interaction with the underlying genetic factors.
Restricted maximum likelihood/best linear unbiased predictor (REML/BLUP) analysis makes it possible to consider correlated errors within locations as well as the stability and adaptability in superior genotype selection. Thus, genetic values may be obtained, instability may be calculated and the values may be applied to any number of environments. In addition, this method generates results in the unit of a given observed trait that can be directly interpreted as genetic values. Selection for seed yield and yield stability was based on the harmonic mean of the relative performance of genotypic predicted values. This refers to the relative performance of the genotypic values in the studied environment. In this case, the predicted genotypic values are expressed as a proportion of the overall average for each location and, subsequently, an average value of this ratio for all locations is obtained. Simultaneous selection for adaptability, seed yield and phenotypic stability in the context of mixed models can be performed using the MHPRVG method (Mohammadi and Amri 2008; Mendes et al. 2012).
This method has been used to interpret adaptability and genotypic stability of such crops as the common bean (Lin and Binns 1988), sugarcane (Bajpai and Kumar 2005), wheat (Mohammadi and Amri 2008) and popcorn cultivars (Scapim et al. 2010). However, its application in winter oilseed rape has been limited.
Genotypic effects in the MHPRVG model are random. Therefore, this model shows genotypic, rather than phenotypic, adaptability and stability. The model analyzes adaptability and stability in the selection of individuals within progenies and provides genetic values after instability is excluded, while additionally it may be potentially used to different environments. So, the main objective of this study was to estimations the genotypic parameters of winter oilseed rape parental lines and experimental hybrids CMS ogura (Brassica napus L.) through mixed models proposed by de Souza et al. (2018).
Material and methods
The plant material used in this study comprised open pollinated cultivar Californium and Hercules F1—hybrid cultivar, 15 Polish Ogura F1 hybrids under development [PN64 × PN17, PN64 × PN18, PN64 × PN21, PN64 × PN05, PN64 × PN07, PN66 × PN17, PN66 × PN18, PN66 × PN21, PN66 × PN05, PN66 × PN07, PN68 × PN17, PN68 × PN18, PN68 × PN21, PN68 × PN05, PN68 × PN07] and their eight parental lines, i.e. three Ogura CMS lines—PN64, PN66, PN68 and five restorer lines—PN05, PN07, PN17, PN18, PN21].
The plant material was tested in five locations: an experimental station in Bąków (E1), the Opolskie Province, and four experimental stations in the Wielkopolska Province—Borowo (E2), Łagiewniki (E3), Małyszyn (E4) and Zielęcin (E5). Our study was arranged in a randomized complete block design with four replicates. Plot size was four rows × 0.30 m row spacing and sowing density of 80 seeds m−2. Full chemical plant protection of the crop was applied. Other agronomical practices were optimal for local agroecological conditions in all the investigated seasons. Soil types, previous crops and soil pH were the same as in Nowosad et al. (2016). Weather conditions in Poland varied moderately during the investigated growing seasons of 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009. Precipitation at the experimental sites from August to July was 731 mm in Bąków, 681 mm in Borowo, 559 mm in Łagiewniki, 588 mm in Małyszyn and 514 mm in Zielęcin, respectively. Mean annual temperature during the growing seasons (from August to July) were, respectively, 7.2 °C in Bąków, 11.8 °C in Borowo, 9.6 °C in Łagiewniki, 9.2 °C in Małyszyn and 10.5 °C in Zielęcin (Table 1).
Seeds were harvested at the seed maturity stage using a plot harvester. Seed yields per plot of 10.0 m2 (Borowo and Bąków), 12.0 m2 (Zielęcin), 9.6 m2 (Łagiewniki) and 11.2 m2 (Małyszyn) were measured and converted to t ha−1 for our statistical analyses.
The genetic parameters and the genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) of seed yield were estimated on the basis of mixed modeling in the GenStat software by the model (de Souza et al. 2018):
where y is the vector of seed yield values; b is the vector of the fixed block effects within particular environments; g is the vector of genotype random effects; c is the vector of random GEI effects; e is the vector of random errors, X, Z and W are the incidence matrices of blocks, genotypes and GEI, respectively. We assumed distributions and structures of means (E) and variances (Var) as:
Model adjustment was made on the basis of mixed model equations (de Souza et al. 2018):
where \(\lambda_{1} = \frac{{\sigma_{e}^{2} }}{{\sigma_{g}^{2} }} = \frac{{\left( {1 - h_{g}^{2} - c^{2} } \right)}}{{h_{g}^{2} }}\), \(\lambda_{2} = \frac{{\sigma_{e}^{2} }}{{\sigma_{c}^{2} }} = \frac{{\left( {1 - h_{g}^{2} - c^{2} } \right)}}{{c_{g}^{2} }}\), \(h_{g}^{2}\)—the individual heritability in the broad sense, \(c^{2} = \frac{{\sigma_{c}^{2} }}{{\left( {\sigma_{g}^{2} + \sigma_{c}^{2} + \sigma_{e}^{2} } \right)}}\) is the coefficient of determination of the GEI effects; \(\sigma_{g}^{2}\)—the genotypic variance, \(\sigma_{c}^{2}\)—the GEI variance, \(\sigma_{e}^{2}\)—the residual variance between plots, \(c_{g}^{2}\)—the coefficient of determination of the genotypic effects, \(\hat{r}_{gloc} = \frac{{\sigma_{c}^{2} }}{{\left( {\sigma_{g}^{2} + \sigma_{c}^{2} } \right)}} = \frac{{h_{g}^{2} }}{{\left( {h_{g}^{2} + c^{2} } \right)}}\)—the genotypic correlation for genotypes, by environments, \(h_{mg}^{2} = \frac{{\sigma_{g}^{2} }}{{\left( {\sigma_{g}^{2} + \sigma_{e}^{2} /J} \right)}}\)—the mean heritability for genotype, \(\hat{r}_{gg}^{2} = \sqrt {\hat{h}_{mg}^{2} }\)—the genotype selection accuracy.
The empirical REML/BLUP predictors of the interaction values is given by \(\hat{\mu } + \hat{g}_{i}\), where μ—the general mean value, \(\hat{g}_{i}\),—the genotypic effect with lack of the GEI were obtained on the basis of proposed model. For each environment, genotypic values (Vg) are predicted by \(\hat{\mu }_{j} + \hat{g}_{i} + \left( {\hat{g}a} \right)_{ij}\), where \(\hat{\mu }_{j}\)—the mean of the j-th environment, \(\hat{g}_{i}\)—the genotypic effect from the i-th genotype, \(\left( {\hat{g}a} \right)_{ij}\)—the effect from the GEI on the i-th genotype in the j-th environment.
Prediction of genotypic values is given by the formula:
where \(\hat{\mu }\)—the general mean, n—the number of environments, and \(\hat{g}_{i}\)—the genotypic effect of the i-th genotype.
Stability of genetic values, MHVG, was calculated by the formula:
where n—the number of environments (n = 5), \(Vg_{ij}\)—the genotypic value of the i-th genotype in the j-th environment. Adaptability of genetic values, PRVG, was calculated by the formula:
where Mj—the mean of seed yield in the j-th environment.
Selection of genotypes (MHPRVG) was made on the basis of productivity, adaptability and stability and calculated by the formula (de Souza et al. 2018):
Selection of the best genotypes was made on the basis of the MHPRVG values and on three criteria: (1) genetic values predicted across the locations with lack of interaction effects, (2) genetic value predicted with the GEI, and (3) selection on the basis of adaptability, production and stability.
Results and discussion
A prerequisite for the achievement of genetic progress in plant breeding is to use biometric methods and advanced biotechnology techniques (in vitro cultures, molecular biology). The process of breeding hybrid varieties requires a large number of cross-pollination combinations of parental lines and their evaluation in field trials in terms of general and specific combining ability, with simultaneously very careful selection of the components based on a number of qualitative characteristics and good adaptability for different environments.
Genetically, OSR is an allopolyploid (genome AACC, 2n = 38) and contains full genomes of turnip rape and cabbage. The most important rapeseed breeding efforts include improvement of yielding ability via an introduction of hybrid varieties into cultivation, and an improvement of seed quality. Table 2 presents the WOSR genetic structure, which is divided by predictors of mean component and estimates of variance components. Intensive phenotyping in multi-environmental trials may provide the most desirable information to broaden our understanding of important complex traits such as seed development characters, biotic and abiotic stress tolerance and the manifestation of yield characters in oilseed rape (Friedt and Snowdon 2009). This set of information should be a definite priority in order to facilitate selection of economically important traits, providing both researchers and breeders with an additional tool increasing the efficiency of the breeding process.
Seed yield, as well as seed quality parameters such as oil, protein and glucosinolate contents are strongly influenced by the environment (Quarrie et al. 2006; Nowosad et al. 2016; Bocianowski et al. 2019b) and the CVe result (45.17) (Pereira et al. 2018) (Table 2). High CVg values are desirable, since CVg defines the size of the genetic variation in selection process (Fogaça et al. 2012). The genetic variation coefficient is equal to 41.01% and showed that the median portion of genetic variances was extracted from the total phenotypic variance. Similar results were obtained by de Souza et al. (2018), who used the same method and mixed models for 14 genotypes of carioca bean in four locations. Torres et al. (2016) and Rocha et al. (2017) obtained similar results for seed yield in oilseed rape genotypes in multi-environments experiments (Szała et al. 2019).
Joint assessment of CVe and CVg is relevant to breeding programs based on selection by the effect of selective accuracy (\(\hat{r}_{gg}\)). In the current study accuracy reached 91.0%, which is a high value. Obtained results showed compatibility of the genotypic values with real genotype values, thus ensuring better selection of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) genotypes to seed yield.
Heritability is one of the most important genetic parameters, since it measures the fraction of phenotypic variation of inheritable nature and can be explored in selection processes (Würschum et al. 2012). The mean heritability for genotype (\(\hat{h}_{mg}^{2}\)) is estimated when means are used as selection criteria. The heritability value (0.80) obtained in this study provided grounds for showing that selection of the best genotypes can be based on predicted genotypic values.
The heritability in the broad sense (\(\hat{h}_{g}^{2}\)) was estimated as 0.11 ± 0.04. The size of the obtained deviation (0.04) didn’t have the estimate to the zero value, which was expected and favorable for the seed yield. Torres et al. (2016) obtained \(\hat{h}_{mg}^{2} \) and \(\hat{h}_{g}^{2}\) values, similar to our results.
The individual phenotypic variance (\(\hat{\sigma }_{f}^{2}\)) is a summ of the genotypic variance, the residual variance between plots and the variance in the GEI. The residual effect variance (\(\hat{\sigma }_{e}^{2}\)) represented 50.01% of the \(\hat{\sigma }_{f}^{2}\) (Table 3). Obtained results had been expected, because seed yield is a quantitative trait determined by many QTLs (Bocianowski et al. 2011) and, consequently, highly influenced by the environment. Seyis et al. (2006) and Wójtowicz (2013) obtained similar results.
The GEI (\(\hat{\sigma }_{c}^{2}\)) variance determine the phenotypic expression of a quantitative trait depending on the individuals' degree of genetic adaptability and/or stability. The \(\hat{\sigma }_{c}^{2}\) = 0.2293 obtained for seed yield corresponded to 8.91% of the total phenotypic variability, thus allowing to find a genotypic correlation across environments (\(\hat{r}_{gloc}\) = 0.18). Hence, it reinforces the importance of assessing the adaptability and stability of winter oilseed rape genotypes in order to provide accurate recommendations to farmers and breeders in different regions (Kaczmarek et al. 2003).
Three different strategies were used to selection of the best genotypes (Tables 3, 4). Based on the mean genotype in all environments, it may be seen here that cv. Hercules F1 and hybrids PN64 × PN17 and PN66 × PN17 were exceptional, because they presented the highest (\(\hat{\mu } + \hat{g}\)) values: 5.42, 4.42 and 4.41 t ha−1, respectively (Table 3). The genetic gains from the selection of these genotypes were 11.16%, 7.73% and 6.17%, respectively.
The (\(\hat{\mu } + \hat{g}\)) values showed similar to results obtained by methods, wherein PRVG, and MHPRVG were simultaneously used (Table 4). Three restorer lines PN18, PN17 and PN21, CMS ogura line PN64 as well as hybrids PN66 × PN21 and PN64 × PN21, selected previously, stood out on the basis of this criterion. Such interaction capitalization is intrinsic to the selection of genotypes presenting greater adaptability and stability in the studied locations.
Adaptability of genetic values (PRVG) of line PN18 and hybrid PN66 × PN21 was equal to 0.65 and 0.64 times, respectively. The selection of two the best genotypes by the stability and adaptability of genetic values using the predicted genetic value resulted in a new mean seed yield equal to 1.67 t ha−1 (Table 4). This is lower than value estimated in the selection for mean seed yield of 5.42 t ha−1 in all environments (Table 3).
Conclusion
The mean heritability of genotype showed average size and high accuracy of selection, while allowing the selection of agronomically the best individuals. Parental lines with the restorer gene (Rfo), i.e. PN18, PN17 and PN21, maternal line PN64 as well as hybrids PN66 × PN21 and PN64 × PN21 exhibited high seed yield adaptability and stability. There was an agreement between statistics of MHVG, PRVG and MHPRVG in the discrimination of the most productive genotypes, which presented high adaptability and stability. Such results indicated that these genotypes can be part of the selection criteria regularly used in winter oilseed rape breeding programs.
The implementation of the MHPRVG method provides preselection of superior parental lines and hybrid combinations, facilitates the selection process and shortens the breeding cycle. A promising MHPRVG method focusses selection on breeding materials and aims to predict parental lines with the highest potential to produce high oleic (HO), high yield (HY) and high protein (HP) winter oilseed rape hybrid cultivars well adapted to the changing climate.
Abbreviations
- BLUP:
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Best linear unbiased predictor
- MHPRVG:
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Stability and adaptability of genetic values
- MHVG:
-
Stability of genetic values
- PRVG:
-
Adaptability of genetic values
- REML:
-
REstricted Maximum Likelihood
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Bocianowski, J., Liersch, A. Multi-environmental evaluation of winter oilseed rape genotypic performance using mixed models. Euphytica 217, 80 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-020-02760-1
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