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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hübner, Marlen
• Wilde, Peer
• Schmiedchen, Brigitta
• Dopierala, Pawel
• Gowda, Manje
• Reif, Jochen C
• Miedaner, Thomas

Titel

Hybrid rye performance under natural drought stress in Europe

Ist Teil von

• Theoretical and applied genetics, 2013-02, Vol.126 (2), p.475-482

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Several rye growing regions of Central Europe suffered from severe drought stress in the last decade. Rye is typically grown on sandy soils with low water-holding capacity in areas with low rainfall, thus drought-tolerant varieties are urgently needed. The main objective of our study was to evaluate the drought stress tolerance of rye hybrids using large-scaled field experiments. Two biparental populations (Pop-A, Pop-B) each consisting of 220 F₂:₄ lines from the Petkus gene pool and their parents were evaluated for grain yield testcross performance under irrigated (I) and rainfed (R) regime in six environments. We observed for most environments severe drought stress leading to an average grain yield reduction of 23.8 % for rainfed compared to irrigated regime in drought stress environments. A decomposition of the variance revealed significant (P < 0.01) genotypic and genotype × environment interaction variances but only a minor effect of drought stress on the ranking of the genotypes with regard to grain yield. In conclusion, separate breeding programs for drought-tolerant genotypes are not superior to the currently practiced selection under rainfed conditions without irrigation in hybrid rye breeding in Central Europe.