Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 32, No 2 (2019)

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Genotype-environment interaction and stability analysis for yield and its components in advanced breeding lines of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] under different ecological climatic conditions

T. JYOTHI, S. MUNISWAMY, YAMNURA *, G. GIRISH, J. R. DIWAN, B. ZAHEER AHAMED

Abstract


Twenty one genotypes of pigeonpea were evaluated at three different environments during kharif season of 2017to study G × E interaction for yield and its component traits. The stability analysis was carried out as per Eberhart andRussell’s (1966) model. Analysis of variance in each environment and on a pooled basis expressed a significant differenceamong genotypes for yield and yield contributing characters except for number of primary branches per plant, pod bearinglength and plot yield (kg/plot). Almost all the traits exhibited a significant difference among environments. Highly significantEnv.+ (Var.× Env.) for most of the traits indicated differential response of the genotypes to the environmental changes. Itwas interesting to note that none of the genotypes exhibited stable performance for all the traits across environments. Thestability parameter for plot yield showed that the genotypes AGL-1603-2, KRG-244 and KRG-251 exhibited low meanperformance along with regression value nearer to unity (bi=1) and non significant deviation from regression (S2di=0)indicating, the high stability and wider adaptability across the different environments. The genotypes GRG-177, KRG-224and GRG-811 exhibited high mean performance but higher regression value (bi>1) and significant deviation (S2di  0) valueindicating adapted for high performance environments showed that these genotypes are sensitive to environments and givemaximum yield when inputs are not limited. While, the most desirable genotype found for poor environment was TS-3R asit showed bi<1. KRG-221, KRG-223, and ICPL-870 were considered to be more desirable ones for plot yield, as theysatisfied the criteria suggested by Eberhart and Russell (1966) for stability over varying climatic conditions

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