Breeding wheat cultivars better adapted to conservation agriculture

Field Crops Research

Volumn 132, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-83

  Trethowan, Richard M ^a   Mahmood, Tariq ^a   Ali, Zulfiqar ^b   Oldach, Klaus ^c   Garcia, Antonino Gutierrez ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d PIONEER INT   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conservation agriculture; Crop adaptation; Genotype tillage practice interaction; Grain quality; QTL analysis; Wheat breeding; Zero tillage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRONOMY; BREEDING SITE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; MIXOTROPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHEAT; ZERO TILLAGE;

AUSTRALIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84860469855     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Bissett M.J., O'Leary G.J. Effects of conservation tillage and rotation on water infiltration in two soils of south-eastern Australia. Aust. J. Soil Res. 1996, 34:299-308.
2. Botwright T., Rebestzke G., Condon T., Richards R. The effect of rht genotype and temperature on coleoptile growth and dry matter partioning in young wheat seedlings. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 2001, 28:417-423.
3. Cook J. Toward cropping systems that enhance productivity and sustainability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2006, 103:18389-18394.
4. Cornish P.S., Hindmarsh S. Seed size influences the coleoptile length of wheat. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 1988, 28:521-523.
5. Cox D.J. Performance of hard red winter wheat cultivars under conventional-till and no-till systems. N. Dak. Farm Res. 1991, 48:17-20.
6. Dalal R.C., Mayer R.J. Long-term trends in fertility of soils under continuous cultivation and cereal cropping in Southern Queensland I. Overall changes in soil properties and trends in winter cereal yields. Aust. J. Soil Res. 1986, 24:265-279.
7. Dumanski J., Peiretti R., Benetis J., McGarry D., Pieri C. The paradigm of conservation tillage. Proc. World Assoc. Soil and Water Conserv. 2006, 58-64.
8. Duvick D.N. Genetic enhancement and plant breeding. Advances in New Crops 1990, 90-96. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, USA. J. Janick, J.E. Simon (Eds.).
9. El Titi A. Soil Tillage in Agroecosystems 2003, CRC press, Florida, ISBN 13:9780849312281, p. 367.
10. Elmore R.W. Soybean cultivar response to tillage systems and planting date. Agron. J. 1990, 82:69-73.
11. Francis C.A., Saeed M., Nelson L.A., Moomaw R. Yield stability of sorghum hybrids and random-mating populations in early and late planting dates. Crop Sci. 1984, 24:1109-1112.
12. Genc Y., Oldach K., Verbyla A.P., Lott G., Hassan M., Tester M., Wallwork H., McDonald G.K. Sodium exclusion QTL associated with improved seedling growth in bread wheat under salinity stress. Theor. Appl. Genet. 2010, 151:877-894.
13. Haley C.S., Knott S.A. A simple regression method for mapping quantitative trait loci in line crosses using flanking markers. Heredity 1992, 69:315-324.
14. Hodgson A.S. Use of neutron and gamma radiation meters to estimate bulk density and correct for bias of sampling for water content in a swelling clay soil. Aust. J. Soil Res. 1988, 26:261-268.
15. Huynh, B.L., 2008. Genetic characterization and QTL mapping for grain fructan in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). PhD thesis. School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Faculty of Sciences, The University of Adelaide.
16. Jordan, V.W.L., Hutcheon, J.A., 1997. Alternative farming methods (arable): a study of the effects of an integrated arable management system on levels of herbicide and nutrients reaching "controlled waters" R&D Technical Report No., P113. Environment Agency, Bristo, p. 65, Available from: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/.
17. Joshi A.K., Arun B., Chand R., Chandola V.K., Krishna K.R., Prasad L., Srivastava C.P., Raha P., Tripathi R. Zero/reduced tillage/bed planting/surface managed crop residue systems-opportunities for crop genetic enhancement. Conservation Agriculture: Status and Prospects 2005, 242. Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Agriculture, New Delhi. I.P. Abrol, R.K. Gupta, R.K. Malik (Eds.).
18. Liebman M., Davis A.S. Integration of soil, crop and weed management in low external-input farming systems. Weed Res. 2000, 40:27-47.
19. Mahmood, T., Ahmad, A., Ali, Z., Trethowan R., 2009. Genotype×tillage interactions in broad acre crops and their implications for cultivar improvement. Paper presented at 14th Australasian Plant Breeding & 11th SABRAO Conference, 10-14 August 2009, Cairns, Australia.
20. Manly K.F., Cudmore R.H., Meer J.M. Map Manager QTX, cross-platform software for genetic mapping. Mamm Genome 2001, 12:930-932.
21. Melo P.G.S., Melo L.C., Soares A.A., De Lima L.M., De S., Reis M., Juliatti F.C., Cornelio V.M.O. Study of the genotypes×environments interaction in the selection process of upland rice. Crop Breed. Appl. Biotech. 2005, 5:38-46.
22. 4 in the central highlands of Mexico: a laboratory study. Plant Soil 2008, 314:231-241.
23. Rebetzke G., Ellis M., Bonnett D., Richards R. Molecular mapping of genes for coleoptile growth in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 2007, 114:1173-1183.
24. Spielmeyer W., Hyles J., Joaquim P., Azanza F., Bonnett D., Ellis M.E., Moore C., Richards R.A. QTL on chromosome 6A in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is associated with longer coleoptiles, greater seedling vigour and final plant height. Theor. Appl. Genet. 2007, 115:59-66.
25. SOWAP Soil and Water Protection in Europe (EU-Life Funded Project) 2006, SOWAP, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, Available from: http://www.sowap.org.
26. Trethowan R.M., Reynolds M.P., Sayre K.D., Ortiz-Monasterio I. Adapting wheat cultivars to resource conserving farming practices and human nutritional needs. Ann. Appl. Biol. 2005, 146:404-413.
27. Ullrich S.E., Muir C.E. Genotypic response of spring barley to alternative tillage systems. Cereal Res. Commun. 1986, 14:161-168.
28. Vargas H., Crossa J. El analisis AMMI y graphica del biplot en SAS 2000, Unidad de biometria CIMMYT, Mexico. http://www.cimmyt.cgiar.org/biometrics.
29. Verhulst N., Carrillo-García A., Moeller C., Trethowan R., Sayre K.D., Govaerts B. Conservation agriculture for wheat-based gravity irrigation systems: increasing resilience though improved soil quality. Plant Soil 2011, 340:467-479.
30. Wang S., Basten C.J., Zeng Z.B. Windows QTL Cartographer Version 2.5 Statistical Genetics 2007, North Carolina State University, USA.