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Genotypic and environmental variability of yield from seven different crops in Croatian official variety trials and comparison with on-farm trends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2016

M. ZORIĆ ,
J. GUNJAČA Open the ORCID record for J. GUNJAČA [Opens in a new window]  and
D. ŠIMIĆ
M. ZORIĆ
Affiliation:
Croatian Centre for Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Institute for Seeds and Seedlings, Usorska 19, Osijek-Brijest, Croatia
J. GUNJAČA*
Affiliation:
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Svetošimunska 25, Zagreb, Croatia Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding, Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
D. ŠIMIĆ
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding, Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Agricultural Institute Osijek, Južno predgradje 17, Osijek, Croatia
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*To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Email: jgunjaca@agr.hr
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Summary

Assessment of the value for cultivation and use (VCU) of a new cultivar, essential for its official registration, is done through a series of trials carried out over a 2–3-year period and across many locations. In a set of multi-environment VCU trials, evaluation of new genotypes can be a laborious task due to the presence of genotype by environment interactions, which can hide their true genetic value. In an attempt to reveal the true genetic value of new cultivars, a good starting point is investigation of the importance of various genetic and environmental sources of variation, which can be done by estimating relative magnitude of corresponding variance components within the mixed model framework.

Genotype × location × year (G × L × Y) data set for seven crops taken from the 10-year period 2001–10 was used in the present study to estimate the variance components for main effects and their interactions in Croatian VCU trials. Depending on the crop, the most important and least important components were Y or LY, and L or GL, respectively. Genotypic effect was relatively small, ranging from 2·1 to 13·4% of the total variation. The current results are comparable with the relative sizes of the variance components obtained in studies from four- to sixfold larger countries, indicating that the environments within Croatia, if sufficiently widely sampled, can provide as extreme cultivar responses as a geographically more dispersed set of VCU trials. The gap range in different crops is much wider (30–60%) than in Western Europe (up to 30%), but it remained constant over the 10-year period.

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Crops and Soils Research Papers
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 155 , Issue 5 , July 2017 , pp. 804 - 811
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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