Dependence of Lifetime Fitness on Gene-by-Environment Interaction: Effects of Soil Salinity on an Annual Legume

2021 ◽  
Vol 182 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Nicholas E. Goldsmith ◽  
Amber R. Nashoba
Keyword(s):  
Soil Salinity ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Lifetime Fitness ◽  
Gene By Environment Interaction

Epistatic Effects and QTL×Environment Interaction Effects of QTLs for Yield and Agronomic Traits in Soybean

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Hui-Zhen LIANG ◽  
Yong-Liang YU ◽  
Hong-Qi YANG ◽  
Hai-Yang ZHANG ◽  
Wei DONG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agronomic Traits ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Epistatic Effects

Application of physiological understanding in soybean improvement. I. Understanding phenological constraints to adaptation and yield potential

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Lawn ◽  
A. T. James
Keyword(s):  
Seed Yield ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Sowing Date ◽  
Companion Paper ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Yield Potential ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Sowing Dates ◽  
Eastern Australia

The purpose of this paper and its companion1 is to describe how, in eastern Australia, soybean improvement, in terms of both breeding and agronomy, has been informed and influenced over the past four decades by physiological understanding of the environmental control of phenology. This first paper describes how initial attempts to grow soybean in eastern Australia, using varieties and production practices from the southern USA, met with limited success due to large variety × environment interaction effects on seed yield. In particular, there were large variety × location, variety × sowing date, and variety × sowing date × density effects. These various interaction effects were ultimately explained in terms of the effects of photo-thermal environment on the phenology of different varieties, and the consequences for radiation interception, dry matter production, harvest index, and seed yield. This knowledge enabled the formulation of agronomic practices to optimise sowing date and planting arrangement to suit particular varieties, and underpinned the establishment of commercial production in south-eastern Queensland in the early 1970s. It also influenced the establishment and operation over the next three decades of several separate breeding programs, each targeting phenological adaptation to specific latitudinal regions of eastern Australia. This paper also describes how physiological developments internationally, particularly the discovery of the long juvenile trait and to a lesser extent the semi-dwarf ideotype, subsequently enabled an approach to be conceived for broadening the phenological adaptation of soybeans across latitudes and sowing dates. The application of this approach, and its outcomes in terms of varietal improvement, agronomic management, and the structure of the breeding program, are described in the companion paper.

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