Genotype X Environment Interaction Analysis of Faba Bean ( Vicia faba L.) for Biomass and Seed Yield across Different Environments

Panayiota Papastylianou, Dimitrios N. Vlachostergios, Christos Dordas, Evangelia Tigka, Paschalis Papakaloudis, Anastasia Kargiotidou, Emmanouil Pratsinakis, Avraam Koskosidis, Chrysanthi Pankou, Angeliki Kousta, Ioannis Mylonas, Eleni Tani, Eleni M. Abraham, Maria Karatassiou and Stavroula Kostoula
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Panayiota Papastylianou: Laboratory of Agronomy, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Dimitrios N. Vlachostergios: Institute of Industrial & Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Christos Dordas: Laboratory of Agronomy, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Evangelia Tigka: Institute of Industrial & Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Paschalis Papakaloudis: Laboratory of Agronomy, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Anastasia Kargiotidou: Institute of Industrial & Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Emmanouil Pratsinakis: Laboratory of Agronomy, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Avraam Koskosidis: Institute of Industrial & Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Chrysanthi Pankou: Laboratory of Agronomy, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Angeliki Kousta: Laboratory of Agronomy, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Ioannis Mylonas: Institute of Plant Breeding & Genetic Resources, HAO- “Demeter”, 57101 Thessaloniki, Greece
Eleni Tani: Laboratory of Plant Breeding & Biometry, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Eleni M. Abraham: Laboratory of Range Science, Department of Forestry & Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Maria Karatassiou: Laboratory of Range Science, Department of Forestry & Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Stavroula Kostoula: Laboratory of Genetics & Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: Development of high yielding and stable cultivars of various legume crops across different environments is very important for their adoption by farmers. In addition, climate change sets new challenges to major crop species and especially to grain legumes such as faba bean ( Vicia faba L.) for adaptation to stressful environments. The present study focused on evaluating faba bean genotypes developed for yield and stability across different environments. The study was conducted in three areas of Greece (South, Central, and North) for two consecutive growing seasons (2018–2019 and 2019–2020). Biomass yield, seed yield, and yield components were studied together with plant height, earliness, and water use efficiency. Genotype, environment, and their interaction affected most of the studied characteristics. The environment was the major source of variation for most of the characteristics, as it explained 81–93% of total variation, and only in the thousand seed weight the variation was 49% for the environment and 40% for the genotype. Genotype had a much smaller effect on the remaining characteristics (1.2–3.9%), and the interaction between environment x genotype accounted for up to 0.5–17% of the variation. GGE-biplot analysis for high yield and stability across different environments revealed three genotypic types: genotypes well adapted either for biomass or seed yield and genotypes with high adaptation capacity for both traits under typical Mediterranean conditions. These results indicated that screening faba bean genotypes under different environmental field conditions is essential to identify adaptable cultivars to be cultivated for biomass and/or seed yield or to be used in breeding programs.

Keywords: evaluation; stability; seed yield; biomass yield; yield components; water use efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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