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CROP BREEDING, GENETICS & CYTOLOGY

Cultivar Evaluation and Mega-Environment Investigation Based on the GGE Biplot

Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

wyan{at}uoguelph.ca

Cultivar evaluation and mega-environment identification are among the most important objectives of multi-environment trials (MET). Although the measured yield is a combined result of effects of genotype (G), environment (E), and genotype x environment interaction (GE), only G and GE are relevant to cultivar evaluation and mega-environment identification. This paper presents a GGE (i.e., G + GE) biplot, which is constructed by the first two symmetrically scaled principal components (PC1 and PC2) derived from singular value decomposition of environment-centered MET data. The GGE biplot graphically displays G plus GE of a MET in a way that facilitates visual cultivar evaluation and mega-environment identification. When applied to yield data of the 1989 through 1998 Ontario winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) performance trials, the GGE biplots clearly identified yearly winning genotypes and their winning niches. Collective analysis of the yearly biplots suggests two winter wheat mega-environments in Ontario: a minor mega-environment (eastern Ontario) and a major one (southern and western Ontario), the latter being traditionally divided into three subareas. There were frequent crossover GE interactions within the major mega-environment but the location groupings were variable across years. It therefore could not be further divided into meaningful subareas. It was revealed that in most years PC1 represents a proportional cultivar response across locations, which leads to noncrossover GE interactions, while PC2 represents a disproportional cultivar response across locations, which is responsible for any crossover GE interactions. Consequently, genotypes with large PC1 scores tend to give higher average yield, and locations with large PC1 scores and near-zero PC2 scores facilitates identification of such genotypes.

Abbreviations: AMMI, Additive Main Effect and Multiplicative Interaction Effect • CHU, Corn Heat Units • E, environment main effect • G, genotypic main effect • GE, genotype x environment interaction • GGE, G plus GE • GGL, G plus GL • GL, genotype x location interaction • L, location main effect • MET, multiple environment trials • OCCC, Ontario Cereal Crops Committee • OWWP, Ontario winter wheat performance trials • PC, principal component(s) • SREG, sites regression • SVD, singular value decomposition

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