Effect of environmental and genetic factors on the correlation and stability of grain yield components in wheat
2011
Hristov, N., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Mladenov, N., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Kondić-Špika, A., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Marjanović-Jeromela, A., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Jocković, B., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Jaćimović, G., Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad (Serbia)
More effective breeding and development of new wheat genotypes depend on an intricate analysis of the complex relationships among many different traits. The objective of this paper was to determine the interrelationship, direct and indirect effects, and stability of different yield components in wheat. Forty divergent genotypes were analyzed in a three-year study (2005-2007). Highly significant correlations were found between grain yield per plant and all the other traits analyzed except spike length, with the only negative correlation being that with plant height. Path analysis revealed highly significant direct effects of grain number per spike, grain mass per spike and 1000 grain weight on grain yield per plant. Analysis of stability parameters showed that the stability of grain yield per plant depended for the most part on the stability of grain number per spike, grain mass per spike and harvest index. Cluster analysis identified genotypes with a high performance for grain yield per plant and good stability parameters, indicating the possibility of developing wheat varieties with a high potential and high stability for a particular trait
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