GGE BIPLOT ANALYSIS OF PEARL MILLET EXPERIMENTAL HYBRIDS (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) FOR YIELD PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY ACROSS DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS IN INDIA

M.V. BORATKAR¹*, S.W. BHIVGADE², V. KHANDELWAL³, CH V.N. PRAVEEN BABU⁴, D.G. ATKARI⁵, B. VAID⁶, G. MANZA^7
1Department of Botany, Yogeshwari Mahavidyalaya, Ambajogai, 431517, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 431004, Maharashtra, India
²Department of Botany, Yogeshwari Mahavidyalaya, Ambajogai, 431517, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 431004, Maharashtra, India
³All India Coordinated Research Project on Pearl Millet (ICAR) Mandor, Jodhpur, 342 304, Rajasthan, India
⁴Srikar Seeds (P) Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
⁵Kukadi Crop Science Pvt Ltd, Pune, Maharashtra, India
⁶Corteva Agriscience, Hyderabad, India
⁷Department of Botany, Yogeshwari Mahavidyalaya, Ambajogai, 431517, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 431004, Maharashtra, India
* Corresponding Author : mb.cotbreeder@gmail.com

Received : 08-08-2023     Accepted : 27-10-2023     Published : 30-10-2023
Volume : 15     Issue : 2       Pages : 956 - 958
Genetics 15.2 (2023):956-958

Keywords : GGE biplot, Hybrids, Grain yield, Stability, Pennisetum glaucum
Academic Editor : Abdul Majid, Dr D. Udayakumar, Dr Vipul N Kapadia, Rehmat Tabassum, Marcos Jesse Abrahao Silva, Dr Nimit Kumar, Dr Sandhya Rani
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to International Crops Research Institute for The Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana; Corteva Agriscience, Hyderabad, Telangana, India for trial conductance and data compilation. Authors are also thankful to Department of Botany, Yogeshwari Mahavidyalaya, Ambajogai, 431517, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 431004, Maharashtra, India; ICAR-AICRP on Pearl Millet, Mandor, Jodhpur, 342304, Rajasthan, India; Srikar Seeds (P) Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, India and Kukadi Crop Science Pvt Ltd, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The study was conducted in A zone and B zone of millet growing parts of India at Alwar, Aurangabad, Jaipur and Jamnagar during 2019 rainy season. Hundred and forty four pearl millet hybrids were tested at different locations and promising hybrids were identified. The experiment was conducted using alpha lattice design with two replications. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that the mean grain yield ranged from 518.4 to 3779.2kg ha-1 for top cross hybrids MBL-11 X MOPT-24 (518.4 kg ha-1) to 3779.2 kg ha-1 for MBL-4 X MOPT-26. Sixteen hybrids were found superior (3305.6 kg ha-1 to 3779.2 kg ha-1) over best commercial check kaveri super boss (3297.0 kg ha-1). GGE biplot analysis showed a total of 83.5% variation was showed for the tested pearl millet hybrids at different environments. The study result revealed that the most responsive of the corner hybrids were MBL-11 X MOPT-24, MBL-10 X MOPT-26, MBL-3 X MOPT-26 and MBL-13 X MIT-21. MBL-4 X MOPT-26 which was closer to the AEC x-axis arrow had the highest mean grain yield followed by MBL-14 X MOPT-26 and MBL-15 X MIT-21. Whereas, hybrids MBL-13 X MIT-21, MBL-6 X MIT-23 and MBL-8 X MIT-21 had the longest projection from the AEC x-axis were highly unstable. In terms of stability and performance hybrid MBL-4 X MOPT-26 was the highest followed by Hybrids MBL-6 X MIT-22, MBL-7 X MOPT-25 and MBL-12 X MOPT-27

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