Heat tolerance indices and their role in selection of heat stress tolerant chickpea (Cicer arietinum) genotypes

UDAY CHAND JHA; RINTU JHA; NARENDRA PRATAP SINGH; SANDIP SHIL; PARESH CHANDRA KOLE

doi:10.56093/ijas.v88i2.79204

Authors

UDAY CHAND JHA ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208 024
RINTU JHA ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208 024
NARENDRA PRATAP SINGH ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 208 024
SANDIP SHIL Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Research Center, Mohitnagar, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal 735 102
PARESH CHANDRA KOLE Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding and Crop Physiology, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati University, Sriniketan, Birbhum, West Bengal 731 236

https://doi.org/10.56093/ijas.v88i2.79204

Keywords:

Cluster analysis, Heat tolerance, Principal component analysis, Tolerance indices

Abstract

Given the current scenario of global climate change, high temperature stress is appearing as a major challenge limiting crop productivity including chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Evidences of significant yield loss in chickpea due to high temperature stress encountering during reproductive stage has been recorded. Therefore, to sustain chickpea productivity, identification of heat stress (HS) tolerant chickpea via recruiting ‘breeder’s friendly’ selection criteria based on yield traits under field condition is urgently needed. In our current study, we evaluated 78 chickpea genotypes (including 3 checks) in 5 blocks in augmented design under normal and late sown condition during 2015-16. Various HS tolerance indices, viz. mean productivity (MP), geometric mean productivity (GMP), yield index (YI), tolerance index (TOL), stress susceptibility index (SSI) and superiority measure (SM) were employed for identifying chickpea genotype based on grain yield under normal and HS conditions. Based on the important selection indices, viz. YI, MP, GMP and SSI the following genotypes RVG 203, RSG 888, JAKI 9218, GNG 469, IPC 06-11 showed higher to moderate heat tolerance. Positive and high significant correlation of Yp with Ys, MP, YI, GMP, SSI and TOL was recorded. Likewise, Ys showed positive and high significant correlation with MP and GMP. While, YI indicated significant and high positive correlation with MP and GMP, but it showed negative correlation with SSI. Importantly, MP and GMP both showed high and positive correlation with SSI and TOL, respectively. Importantly, principal component analysis lowered all the six indices into 2 components PC1 explaining 61.9% and PC2 explaining 37.1% of total variation. While, 3-D scatter plot analysis grouped all the genotypes into four groups. Likewise, considering cluster analysis, four distinct clusters were generated based on above-mentioned various indices. Towards this end, correlation analysis, 3-D scatter plot and cluster analysis explained that the most effective and efficient selection indices for identifying heat tolerant genotype are MP, YI, GMP and SSI.

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