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Yield Stability and Adaptability of Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Varieties in Polish Organic Field Trials
by
Tomasz Lenartowicz
Tomasz Lenartowicz 1,*,
Henryk Bujak
Henryk Bujak 1,2,
Marcin Przystalski
Marcin Przystalski 1,
Karolina Piecuch
Karolina Piecuch 1,
Krzysztof Jończyk
Krzysztof Jończyk 3 and
Beata Feledyn-Szewczyk
Beata Feledyn-Szewczyk 3
1
Research Centre for Cultivar Testing, Słupia Wielka 34, 63-022 Słupia Wielka, Poland
2
Department of Genetics, Plant Breeding and Seed Production, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzki 24A, 50-363 Wrocław, Poland
3
Department of Systems and Economics of Crop Production, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation-State Research Institute in Puławy, 24-100 Puławy, Poland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Agronomy 2024, 14(9), 1963; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091963 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 7 July 2024
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Revised: 9 August 2024
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Accepted: 27 August 2024
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Published: 29 August 2024
Abstract
In the next few years, the demand for organic crops, including barley, will grow. Barley is one of the world’s most important crops cultivated for food and feed. With the forecasted increase in cropped area, there is a need for stable, well-adapted and high-yielding varieties. The aim of this study was to assess the yield stability of ten varieties tested in the Polish organic post-registration trials in the years 2020–2022. For this purpose, we fitted a linear mixed model on plot data. Additionally, for each variety, we calculated the probability of the yield falling to a certain threshold. It is shown that the Bente variety was the highest-yielding among the tested varieties. The Pilote variety was the most stable in terms of Shukla’s stability variance. Furthermore, for the three highest-yielding varieties, the lowest values of the simultaneous selection index and the probability of falling below a certain threshold were obtained. We can, therefore, conclude that the highest-yielding varieties should be promoted for cultivation. Moreover, new varieties suitable for organic farming can be bred from the highest-yielding and most stable varieties.
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Lenartowicz, T.; Bujak, H.; Przystalski, M.; Piecuch, K.; Jończyk, K.; Feledyn-Szewczyk, B.
Yield Stability and Adaptability of Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Varieties in Polish Organic Field Trials. Agronomy 2024, 14, 1963.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091963
AMA Style
Lenartowicz T, Bujak H, Przystalski M, Piecuch K, Jończyk K, Feledyn-Szewczyk B.
Yield Stability and Adaptability of Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Varieties in Polish Organic Field Trials. Agronomy. 2024; 14(9):1963.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091963
Chicago/Turabian Style
Lenartowicz, Tomasz, Henryk Bujak, Marcin Przystalski, Karolina Piecuch, Krzysztof Jończyk, and Beata Feledyn-Szewczyk.
2024. "Yield Stability and Adaptability of Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Varieties in Polish Organic Field Trials" Agronomy 14, no. 9: 1963.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091963
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