Evaluation of CIMMYT conventional and synthetic spring wheat germplasm in rainfed sub-tropical environments. II. Grain yield components and physiological traits

Field Crops Research

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-204

  Rattey, A R ^a   Shorter, R ^a,b   Chapman, S C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive traits; Biomass; Breeding and selection; Canopy temperature depression; Dry weight stem 1; Grain weight; Hexaploid wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DROUGHT STRESS; GERMPLASM; INTROGRESSION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROBABILITY; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

AUSTRALIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 80052652960     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Akaike H. New look at statistical-model identification. IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 1974, AC19:716-723.
2. Angus J.F., van Herwaarden A.F. Increasing water use and water use efficiency in dryland wheat. Agron. J. 2001, 93:290-298.
3. Austin R.B., Ford M.A., Morgan C.L. Genetic improvement in the yield of winter wheat - a further evaluation. J. Agric. Sci. 1989, 112:295-301.
4. Brennan J.P., Fox P.N. Impact of CIMMYT varieties on the genetic diversity of wheat in Australia, 1973-1993. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 1998, 49:175-178.
5. Brennan J.P., Quade K.J. Evolving usage of materials from CIMMYT in developing Australian wheat varieties. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 2006, 57:947-952.
6. Chapman S.C. Use of crop models to understand genotype by environment interactions for drought in real-world and simulated plant breeding trials. Euphytica 2008, 161:195-208.
7. Christopher J.T., Manschadi A.M., Hammer G.L., Borrell A.K. Developmental and physiological traits associated with high yield and stay-green phenotype in wheat. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 2008, 59:354-364.
8. Donmez E., Sears R.G., Shroyer J.P., Paulsen G.M. Genetic gain in yield attributes of winter wheat in the great plains. Crop Sci. 2001, 41:1412-1419.
9. Cooper M., Stucker R.E., DeLacy I.H., Harch B.D. Wheat breeding nurseries, target environments, and indirect selection for grain yield. Crop Sci. 1997, 37:1168-1176.
10. Dreccer M.F., Chapman S.C., Ogbonnaya F.C., Borgognone M.G., Trethowan R.M. Crop and environmental attributes underpinning genotype by environment interaction in synthetic-derived bread wheat evaluated in Mexico and Australia. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 2008, 59:447-460.
11. Falconer D.S., Mackay T.F.C. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics 1996, Addison Wesley Longman Limited, Harlow, Essex.
12. Fischer R.A., Rees D., Sayre K.D., Lu Z.M., Condon A.G., Saavedra A.L. Wheat yield progress associated with higher stomatal conductance and photosynthetic rate, and cooler canopies. Crop Sci. 1998, 38:1467-1475.
13. Gabriel K.R. Biplot graphic display of matrices with application to principal component analysis. Biometrika 1971, 58:453-467.
14. Gilmour A.R., Cullis B.R., Verbyla A.P. Accounting for natural and extraneous variation in the analysis of field experiments. J. Agric. Biol. Environ. Stat. 1997, 2:269-293.
15. Gororo N.N., Eagles H.A., Eastwood R.F., Nicolas M.E., Flood R.G. Use of Triticum tauschii to improve yield of wheat in low-yielding environments. Euphytica 2002, 123:241-254.
16. Hanson W.D. Heritability. Statistical Genetics and Plant Breeding 1963, 125-139. National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Publication 982, Washington, DC. W.D. Hanson, H.F. Robinson (Eds.).
17. Henderson C.R. Selection index and expected genetic advance. Statistical Genetics and Plant Breeding 1963, 141-163. National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council Publication 982, Washington, DC. W.D. Hansen, H.F. Robinson (Eds.).
18. Kempthorne O., Nordskog A.W. Restricted selection indices. Biometrics 1959, 5:10-19.
19. Lopes M.S., Reynolds M.P. Partitioning of assimilates to deeper roots is associated with cooler canopies and increased yield under drought in wheat. Funct. Plant Biol. 2010, 37:147-156.
20. Mathews K.L., Chapman S.C., Trethowan R., Pfeiffer W., Ginkel M., Crossa J., Payne T., DeLacy I., Fox P.N., Cooper M. Global adaptation patterns of Australian and CIMMYT spring bread wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 2007, 115:819-835.
21. Ogbonnaya F.C., Ye G.Y., Trethowan R., Dreccer F., Lush D., Shepperd J., van Ginkel M. Yield of synthetic backcross-derived lines in rainfed environments of Australia. Euphytica 2007, 157:321-336.
22. Olivares-Villegas J.J., Reynolds M.P., McDonald G.K. Drought-adaptive attributes in the Seri/Babax hexaploid wheat population. Funct. Plant Biol. 2007, 34:189-203.
23. Ortiz R., Braun H.J., Crossa J., Crouch J.H., Davenport G., Dixon J., Dreisigacker S., Duveiller E., He Z.H., Huerta J., Joshi A.K., Kishii M., Kosina P., Manes Y., Mezzalama M., Morgounov A., Murakami J., Nicol J., Ferrara G.O., Ortiz-Monasterio J.I., Payne T.S., Pena R.J., Reynolds M.P., Sayre K.D., Sharma R.C., Singh R.P., Wang J.K., Warburton M., Wu H.X., Iwanaga M. Wheat genetic resources enhancement by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). Genet. Resour. Crop Evol. 2008, 55:1095-1140.
24. Ortiz R., Trethowan R., Ferrara G.O., Iwanaga M., Dodds J.H., Crouch J.H., Crossa J., Braun H.J. High yield potential, shuttle breeding, genetic diversity, and a new international wheat improvement strategy. Euphytica 2007, 157:365-384.
25. Peltonen-Sainio P., Kangas A., Salo Y., Jauhiainen L. Grain number dominates grain weight in temperate cereal yield determination: evidence based on 30years of multi-location trials. Field Crops Res. 2007, 100:179-188.
26. Pesek J., Baker R.J. Desired improvement in relation to selection indices. Can. J. Plant Sci. 1969, 49:803-804.
27. R Development Core Team, 2006. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
28. Rajaram S., Van Ginkel M., Fischer R.A. CIMMYT's wheat breeding mega-environments (ME). Proceedings of the 8th International Wheat Genetics Symposium 1994, 1101-1106.
29. Rattey A., Shorter R. Evaluation of CIMMYT conventional and synthetic spring wheat germplasm in rainfed sub-tropical environments. I. Grain yield. Field Crops Res. 2010, 118:273-281.
30. Rattey A., Shorter R., Chapman S., Dreccer F., van Herwaarden A. Variation for and relationships among biomass and grain yield component traits conferring improved yield and grain weight in an elite wheat population grown in variable yield environments. Crop Pasture Sci. 2009, 60:717-729.
31. Rebetzke G.J., van Herwaarden A.F., Jenkins C., Weiss M., Lewis D., Ruuska S., Tabe L., Fettell N.A., Richards R.A. Quantitative trait loci for water-soluble carbohydrates and associations with agronomic traits in wheat. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 2008, 59:891-905.
32. Reynolds M.P., Borlaug N.E. Impacts of breeding on international collaborative wheat improvement. J. Agric. Sci. 2006, 144:3-17.
33. Reynolds M.P., Condon A.G. Quantifying potential genetic gains in wheat yield using a conceptual model of drought adaptation. Wheat production in stressed environments. Proceedings of the 7th International Wheat Conference, 27 November-2 December 2005, mar del Plata, Argentina 2007, 331-340. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. H.T. Buck, J.E. Nisi, N. Salomon (Eds.).
34. Reynolds M., Dreccer F., Trethowan R. Drought-adaptive traits derived from wheat wild relatives and landraces. J. Exp. Bot. 2007, 58:177-186.
35. Reynolds M., Saint Pierre C., Saad A., Vargas M., Condon A.G. Evaluating potential genetic gains in wheat associated with stress-adaptive trait expression in elite genetic resources under drought and heat stress. Crop Sci. 2007, 47:174-189.
36. Reynolds M., Manes Y., Izanloo A., Langridge P. Phenotyping approaches for physiological breeding and gene discovery in wheat. Ann. Appl. Biol. 2009, 155:309-320.
37. Sayre K.D., Rajaram S., Fischer R.A. Yield potential progress in short bread wheats in northwest Mexico. Crop Sci. 1997, 37:36-42.
38. Richards R.A. The effect of dwarfing genes in spring wheat in dry environments. I. Agronomic characteristics. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 1992, 43:517-527.
39. Shearman V.J., Sylvester-Bradley R., Scott R.K., Foulkes M.J. Physiological processes associated with wheat yield progress in the UK. Crop Sci. 2005, 45:175-185.
40. Singh R.P., Huerta-Espino J., Sharma R., Joshi A.K., Trethowan R. High yielding spring bread wheat germplasm for global irrigated and rainfed production systems. Euphytica 2007, 157:351-363.
41. Slafer G.A., Satorre E.H., Andrade F.H. Increases in grain yield in bread wheat from breeding and associated physiological changes. Genetic Improvement of Field Crops 1994, 1-68. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York. G.A. Slafer (Ed.).
42. Smale M., Reynolds M.P., Warburton M., Skovmand B., Trethowan R., Singh R.P., Ortiz-Monasterio I., Crossa J. Dimensions of diversity in modern spring bread wheat in developing countries from 1965. Crop Sci. 2002, 42:1766-1779.
43. Smith A., Cullis B., Gilmour A. The analysis of crop variety evaluation data in Australia. Aust. N. Z. J. Stat. 2001, 43:129-145.
44. Trethowan R., Hodson D., Braun H.J., Pfeiffer W.H. Wheat breeding environments. Impacts of International Wheat Breeding Research in the Developing World, 1988-2002 2005, 4-11. CIMMYT, Mexico, DF. M.A.L. Dubin, M.L. Morris (Eds.).
45. van Herwaarden A.F., Angus J.F., Richards R.A., Farquhar G.D. 'Haying-off', the negative grain yield response of dryland wheat to nitrogen fertiliser - II. Carbohydrate and protein dynamics. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 1998, 49:1083-1093.
46. Welham S.J., Gogel B.J., Smith A.B., Thomson R., Cullis B. Evaluation of models for late-stage variety evaluation trials. Australasian GenStat/StatGen Conference, Victor Harbour 2006, 44.
47. Zadoks J.C., Chang T.T., Konzak C.F. A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals. Weed Res. 1974, 14:415-421.