Mating designs

Introduction

Mating designs allow for partitioning of phenotypic effects – as due to genotype, environment or interacting effects among genes and alleles. Using one or more of these mating schemes, identification of heterotic groups, estimation of general and specific combining abilities and testing of environmental interactions could be done. Progenies resulting from a well designed mating are used for the dissection of trait genetics.

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Meaning of stability

Comparison of treatments may also imply cross comparison of their stability across multiple environments, especially when a study constitutes a series of trials that are each conducted at different locations and/or at different periods in time (henceforth referred to as MET; Multi-Environment Trial). Several situations exist where only mean based performance analysis are regarded inconclusive.

For example, in varietal release process the authorizing body seeks record of consistent trait performace of certain crop genotype. The imperative is: a variety needs to be stably exhibit it’s characters in the proposed domain of cultivation, which generally is a wide area, throughout a long duration of cultivation cycles. This pre-condition of stable character inheritance is more relevant to crops constituting a homogenous and homozygous population. Either of the location, time period or combination of both, more commonly framed as year in field researches, could be assumed to present an unique environment that treatment entries are tested in. Thus, for results to be widely applicable, performance measures across environments should be more or less stable. To the contrary, the concept of utilizing differential character expression across different environments is often explored when interaction between genotypes and environments result in more desirable character.

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Issue

A farmer has 600 katthas of land under his authority. Each of his katthas of land will either be sown with Rice or with Maize during the current season. Each kattha planted with Maize will yield Rs 1000, requires 2 workers and 20 kg of fertilizer. Each kattha planted with Rice will yield Rs 2000, requires 4 workers and 25 kg of fertilizers. There are currently 1200 workers and 11000 kg of fertilizer available.

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