Summary
The International Spring Wheat Yield Nursery (ISWYN) has been distributed annually since 1964 and the results provide a base for investigating relationships among locations. Ordination and clustering of locations was conducted using 26 years of grain yield data. Ordination and clusters based on the discrimination of germplasm were compared with ‘mega-environments’, which are groupings of locations defined by CIMMYT on the basis of climatic factors and perceptions of major biotic and abiotic stresses. Discrepancies among mega-environmental groupings, clusters and ordinations may identify locations for which major stresses affecting wheat yield are yet unidentified.
Major environmental discriminators were latitude and the presence or absence of stress, although there was little association of locations due to limited moisture availability. We identified two major spring wheat environments, typified as Asian and European, and suggest the mega-environmental classification does not explain all significant associations among locations. Location groupings based on discrimination of germplasm should be considered in parallel to mega-environments on a regular basis and we propose breeding for a base of broadly adapted germplasm to which specific stress tolerances are incorporated.
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Abbreviations
- CIMMYT:
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International Maize & Wheat Improvement Centre
- ISWYN:
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International Spring Wheat Yield Nursery
- WANA:
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West Asia and North Africa
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DeLacy, I.H., Fox, P.N., Corbett, J.D. et al. Long-term association of locations for testing spring bread wheat. Euphytica 72, 95–106 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023777
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