Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa
Taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] is an important underutilised staple food crop in South Africa, with a lot of potential to address food insecurity among poor rural households. Development of high yielding stable taro cultivars is one of the most important goals of plant breeders. Twenty-nine...
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| author | Gerrano, Abe Shegro Van Rensburg, Willem Sternberg Jansen Adebola, Patrick Olusanmi Manjeru, Pepukai Bairu, Michael Wolday Venter, Sonja Louise |
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| description | Taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] is an important underutilised staple food crop in South Africa, with a lot of potential to address food insecurity among poor rural households. Development of high yielding stable taro cultivars is one of the most important goals of plant breeders. Twenty-nine taro accessions collected from major taro producing regions of the country were evaluated for growth performance, yield potential and stability under dryland conditions at two sites (Umbumbulu and Roodeplaat) in 2013, 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons. The experiment was laid in a randomised complete block design replicated three times. Growth and yield traits were measured. Analysis of variance and correlation analysis was done on all measured traits. The genotype by environment interaction was analysed using additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI). As a result, significant variation was observed for most of the traits except number of leaves and leaf width as well as number of suckers, while all the traits showed significant variation for location by year interaction. Number of corms showed significant variation for location by year by genotype interaction among all the traits evaluated. Genotype effect was highly significant (p < .01) on plant height, corm length, number of corms and significant (p < .05) on yield. The significant difference between genotypes for these traits proves that there was a genetic variability and there is a scope for selection. The correlation study also reveals that majority of the characters were positively correlated with each other. Total yield was positively and highly significantly (p < .01) correlated with all the measured traits. AMMI was effective in identifying stable genotypes. The top ranking cultivars per environment may be considered for cultivation under the specific environment, the stable cultivars may be considered for cultivation across all the taro growing regions. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-43912022-06-27T13:49:06Z Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa Gerrano, Abe Shegro Van Rensburg, Willem Sternberg Jansen Adebola, Patrick Olusanmi Manjeru, Pepukai Bairu, Michael Wolday Venter, Sonja Louise Amadumbe genotype by environment interaction environment genotype taro yield Taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] is an important underutilised staple food crop in South Africa, with a lot of potential to address food insecurity among poor rural households. Development of high yielding stable taro cultivars is one of the most important goals of plant breeders. Twenty-nine taro accessions collected from major taro producing regions of the country were evaluated for growth performance, yield potential and stability under dryland conditions at two sites (Umbumbulu and Roodeplaat) in 2013, 2014 and 2015 cropping seasons. The experiment was laid in a randomised complete block design replicated three times. Growth and yield traits were measured. Analysis of variance and correlation analysis was done on all measured traits. The genotype by environment interaction was analysed using additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI). As a result, significant variation was observed for most of the traits except number of leaves and leaf width as well as number of suckers, while all the traits showed significant variation for location by year interaction. Number of corms showed significant variation for location by year by genotype interaction among all the traits evaluated. Genotype effect was highly significant (p < .01) on plant height, corm length, number of corms and significant (p < .05) on yield. The significant difference between genotypes for these traits proves that there was a genetic variability and there is a scope for selection. The correlation study also reveals that majority of the characters were positively correlated with each other. Total yield was positively and highly significantly (p < .01) correlated with all the measured traits. AMMI was effective in identifying stable genotypes. The top ranking cultivars per environment may be considered for cultivation under the specific environment, the stable cultivars may be considered for cultivation across all the taro growing regions. 2021-06-07T13:29:23Z 2021-06-07T13:29:23Z 2019 Article 1651-1913 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09064710.2018.1530296?journalCode=sagb20 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4391 en Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science;Vol.69 ; Issue 3 open Taylor and Francis Ltd. |
| spellingShingle | Amadumbe genotype by environment interaction environment genotype taro yield Gerrano, Abe Shegro Van Rensburg, Willem Sternberg Jansen Adebola, Patrick Olusanmi Manjeru, Pepukai Bairu, Michael Wolday Venter, Sonja Louise Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa |
| title | Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa |
| title_full | Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa |
| title_short | Evaluation and selection of taro [Colocasia esculentra (L.) Schott] accessions under dryland conditions in South Africa |
| title_sort | evaluation and selection of taro [colocasia esculentra (l.) schott] accessions under dryland conditions in south africa |
| topic | Amadumbe genotype by environment interaction environment genotype taro yield |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09064710.2018.1530296?journalCode=sagb20 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4391 |
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