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Non-parametric measures of phenotypic stability in chickpea genotypes (Cicer arietinum L.)

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Multi-environment trials (MET) play an important role in selecting the best cultivars and/or agronomic practices to be used in future years at different locations by assessing a cultivar's stability across environments before its commercial release. Objective of this study is to identify chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes that have high yield and stable performance across different locations. The genotypes were developed by various breeders at different research institutes/stations of Iran and the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dray Areas (ICARDA), Syria. Several statistical methods were used to evaluate phenotypic stability of these test chickpea genotypes. The 17 genotypes were tested at six different research stations for two years in Iran. Three non-parametric statistical test of significance for genotype × environment (GE) interaction and ten nonparametric measures of stability analyses were used to identify stable genotypes across the 16 environments. The non-parametric measures (Kubinger, Hildebrand and Kroon/Van der) for G × E interaction were highly significant (P < 0.01), suggesting differential responses of the genotypes to the test environments. Based on high values of nonparametric superiority measure (Fox et al. 1990) and low values of Kang's (1988) rank-sum stability parameters, Flip 94-123C was identified as the most stable genotype. These non parametric parameters were observed to be associated with high mean yield. However, the other nonparametric methods were not positively correlated with mean yield and were therefore not used in classifying the genotypes. Simple correlation coefficients using Spearman’s rank correlation, calculated using ranks was used to measure the relationship between the stability parameters. To understand the nature of relationships among the nonparametric methods, a hierarchical cluster analysis based on non weighted values of genotypes, was performed. The 10 stability parameters fell into three groups.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Profs. M. S. Kang and H. Y. Lu for their helpful comments and Prof. Leon for SAS programs. Our sincere gratitude also goes to the Iranian Agricultural Research Organization and its Agricultural Research Stations for providing plant materials, experimental sites and technical assistance.

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  1. Department of Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-336, Tehran, Iran

    Asghar Ebadi Segherloo & Hamid Dehghani

  2. Dry land Agricultural Research Institute, Kermanshah, Iran

    Sayyed Hossain Sabaghpour

  3. Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Morteza Kamrani

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Segherloo, A.E., Sabaghpour, S.H., Dehghani, H. et al. Non-parametric measures of phenotypic stability in chickpea genotypes (Cicer arietinum L.). Euphytica 162, 221–229 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-007-9552-x

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