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Assessment of field pea (Pisum sativum L.) grain yield, aerial biomass and flowering date stability in Mediterranean environments

R. Iglesias-García A F , E. Prats A , F. Flores B , M. Amri C D , A. Mikić E and D. Rubiales A
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A Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Avenida Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.

B ETSI La Rábida., Univ. Huelva, 21819 Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

C University of Carthage, Field Crop Laboratory (INRAT), Regional Field Crop Research Center of Beja (CRRGC), Tunisia.

D Present address: ICARDA, Avenue Mohamed Belarbi Alaoui, BP 6299, Al-Irfane Rabat, Morocco.

E Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Maksima Gorkog 30, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.

F Corresponding author. Email: rbkig@hotmail.com

Crop and Pasture Science 68(11) 915-923 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP16423
Submitted: 9 November 2016  Accepted: 8 June 2017   Published: 4 August 2017

Abstract

Mediterranean environments are of most interest to study pea adaptability to terminal drought conditions especially in the current context of global climate change. In our work we have tested nine pea cultivars in five South European and North African locations, characterised by different agro climatic conditions within the Mediterranean climate. Data were processed through the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction analysis. Grain yield, aboveground biomass and flowering date were assessed within each mega-environment with parametric and non-parametric methods, establishing ranks for the genotypes within each condition attending to their stability parameters and mean values. The field analysis revealed HR1 as a wide-adapted genotype, whereas others such as Desso showed the best adaptation in South Mediterranean areas. Our results also highlighted the potential interest of these genotypes and others (i.e. Messire and ZP108) in breeding programs and further studies on drought tolerance.

Additional keywords: drought tolerance, dry pea, Genotype × Environment interaction, phenology.


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