Journal of Agronomy & Agricultural Science Category: Agriculture Type: Research Article

Stability and Adaptability of Cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum L.) Genotypes under Multi Environmental Conditions in Mozambique

Maleia MP1*, Jamal EC2, Savanguane JW3, João J1 and Teca JO1
1 Instituto de investigacao agraria de mocambique, Maputo, Mozambique
2 Instituto do algodao de mocambique, Maputo, Mozambique
3 Universidade catolica de mocambique, Faculdade de Agricultura, Cuamba, Mozambique

*Corresponding Author(s):
Maleia MP
Instituto De Investigacao Agraria De Mocambique, Maputo, Mozambique
Tel:+258 82876040/8445588271,
Email:mmaleia@gmail.com

Received Date: Dec 20, 2019
Accepted Date: Dec 24, 2019
Published Date: Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), is an important crop in many developing countries. The crop yield is fundamentally dependent on the environment in which it is grown. One of the major challenges for cultivar recommendation is the genotype by environment interaction when the performance ranking of genotypes over environments is not constant. The identification of cultivars with high adaptability and stability to the growing conditions is an option to deal with this fact. The objective of the present study was to assess the yield stability and adaptability of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genotypes under multi environmental conditions in Mozambique. The trials were established over two years (2014/15 and 2015/16) in Namialo, Cuamba and Balama, in a total of six environments. The plots were established in a randomized complete block design with three replicates of eighteen treatments. The stability and adaptability were assessed using the AMMI (Additive Main Effect and Multiplicative Interaction) multivariate method. The results showed that the most productive new genotype in terms of seed cotton yield was IP63. Among the introduced new genotypes, the Brazilian IMACD 06-6798 were classified as the most stable followed by the other Brazilian IMA1 08-3917 and the Turkish BA 919 compared to the local CIMSAN1 and the Zambian Churedza. The results suggest that the genotypes IMACD 06-6798, IMA1 08-3917 and BA 919 may be recommended for cultivation in Mozambique, since they presented an acceptable adaptability and potential stability.

Keywords

AMMI; Biplot; Genotype X environment interaction; Multivariate analysis; Stability; Triplot; Yield.

INTRODUCTION

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), is an important commodity in the world, including in many developing countries. This crop is grown in more than 100 countries. India, China and USA are the main produces in the world [1]. Mozambique is not a big cotton producer country, but cotton assumes a great importance among small scale farmers in rural areas, where involves more than 300.000 families in its production as a cash crop and is the most important agricultural export crop in the country contributing close to 17 percent of total agricultural exports and almost 2 percent of total exports [2,3]. In addition, 10 professional companies have cotton as their core business and create over 20.000 employments throughout it value chain, namely seasonal and permanent workers. Cotton ranks second in merchandise exports Small-scale farmers, comprising 99 percent of all rural households in Mozambique and provide 95 percent of agricultural gross domestic product, where the country’s rural economy is heavily reliant on the cotton subsector. This subsector generates nearly 40 million USD in agriculture exports per year [3]. The yield of this cash crop is particularly low in the whole country (500 kg.ha-1) compared to the world average yield (800 kg.ha-1) and to the neighboring countries such as Malawi (800 kg.ha-1), Tanzania (750 kg.ha-1) and Zambia (800 kg.ha-1) [2,4]. One of the reasons is the low yielding and less adaptable varieties [5]. The cotton research program in the country has been developing and introducing new different germplasm/genotypes, in order to find the suitable varieties to the local edaphoclimatic conditions [5]. However, recommendation of varieties has been a challenge, as it depends largely on the variety adaptability to the soil and climatic conditions of the region where it will be grown and unpredictable weather patterns cause a need for the identification of stable genotypes that have specific adaptation to specific environments [6]. In the previous seasons (2014/15 and 2015/15), Mozambique introduced and evaluated new germoplasms from Brazil, Turkey and China, compared to those grown in the country. This study aimed to assess the yield stability and adaptability of the new cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genotypes under multi-environmental conditions in Mozambique.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Location and seasons

The genotypes were evaluated comparing the used cultivars, during 2 seasons (2014/15 and 2015/16) in Namialo (14S 58' 00 and 39E 51' 00) district of Meconta, province of Nampula; Namara (13S 22' 58 and 38E 25' 13) district of Balama, province of Cabo Delgado and in Cuamba (14S59’99 and 36E59’99), district of Cuamba, province of Niassa; providing 6 different environments through the combination between locals and seasons (Table 1). 

Environment

Season/Year

Local

Env 1

14/15

Namialo

Env 2

14/15

Balama

Env 3

15/16

Cuamba

Env 4

15/16

Namialo

Env 5

15/16

Cuamba

Env 6

15/16

Balama

Local

Namialo

Balama

Cuamba

District

Meconta

Balama

Cuamba

Province

Nampula

Cabo Delgado

Niassa

Climate type

Semi-humid

Semi-arid

Humid tropical

Soil

Sandy loam

Alluvium

Loam

Table 1: Locals description and seasons where the multi-environment trials were laid out.

Experimental design

The treatments (Table 2), were set up in a randomized complete block design, with three replications. The plots were consisted of three rows of 5.0 m length, where the two lateral rows were considered as side borders and the central as the useful one, where the data was collected, in a spacement of 0.70 m between the rows and 0.20 cm between the plants. Sowing was carried out manually, putting 4-10 seeds per hole of about 4 cm of depth. The first thinning took place 15 days after the emergency, leaving two plants per hole and the second thinning was carried out leaving one plant per hole at 21 days after the emergency. 

Treatment

Genotype

Origin

Continent

Agronomic description

Cycle

Leaves and Stem pubescence

1

ALBAR SZ 9314

Zimbabwe

Africa

Late

Medium

2

BA919

Turkey

Europe

Medium

Medium

3

CA324

Mozambique

Africa

Late

Medium

4

CHUREDZA

Zambia

Africa

Medium

Medium

5

CIMSAN 1

Mozambique

Africa

Medium

High

6

FK 37

Burkina Fasso

Africa

Medium

Medium

7

FLASH

Turkey

Europe

Medium

Medium

8

IMA1 -08-3917

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

9

IMA1 09-1708

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

10

IMA1 09-278

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

11

IMACD 058221

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

12

IMACD 06-6798

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

13

IMACD 8276

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

14

15

IMACD07-6372

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

IMAIAC 26

Brazil

America

Medium

Medium

16

IP 60

China

Asia

Early

Fair

17

IP 63

China

Asia

Early

Fair

18

IP 75

China

Asia

Early

Fair

Table 2: List of treatments with their Agronomic description.

Management and evaluated variables

Weeds were controlled manually using a hoe whenever deemed necessary. Spraying was carried out once with acetamiprid insecticide (222 g.lt-1) for the first control of pests in a dosage of 50 ml.ha-1, followed by five applications of Lambda-cihalothrin (60 g L-1) every two weeks from the fourth week after the emergency, in a dosage of 250 ml.ha-1. Insecticides were applied with a micro-ulva (ULV). The variables evaluated were the seedcotton yield (Kg.ha-1) and ginning outturn (%).

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Before the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), the data was submitted to tests of homogeneity of variances and normality [7,8] to ensure the feasibility of ANOVA. For the Individual ANOVA, every combination of local and season/year was regarded as an environment. Before conducting the combine ANOVA, the assessment of homogeneity of the residual variances of the environments was conducted, using the Hartley's Fmax test [9], at 5% of probability, to ensure the feasibility of combine analysis of variance [10]. The combine ANOVA was conducted after the residual variances of all the environments were regarded as homogeneous (p > 0.05), considering the effect of genotypes as fixed, and the effect of the environments and blocks as random [10]. When a significant Genotypes x Environments (GxE) interaction was revealed, stability and adaptability analysis based on the AMMI (Additive Main Effects and Multiplicative Interaction) model were applied, where the original GxE interaction was decomposed into the principal component analysis [11-14].

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Shapiro-Wilk’s normality of the error [8] and Bartlett’s homogeneous variance of errors [7] for the seed cotton yield allowed preceding the individual ANOVA in each of six environments. Then, the assessment of the Hartley's Fmax test [9] indicated homogeneous error variances among the evaluated environments that allowed conducting the combined ANOVA. The combined ANOVA revealed a significant difference among genotypes, environments for both evaluated variables and a significant GxE interaction for seed cotton yield, while the GxE interaction for ginning outturn was not significant (Table 3), which indicates that the environment had an impact over the differentiated performance of the genotypes and the broad range of diversity among them [15]. This is the same from that found by Maleia et al. [5], Pretorius et al. [6] and Maleia et al. [16], when evaluating cotton genotypes in different environments. In addition, it shows that some varieties had better performance in one environment and low performance in others, which provided a change of their performance standard under the environmental variation revealed by the significant of GxE interaction for seed cotton yield (Table 3). This is often observed when studying any complex (multigenic) trait, such as seed cotton yield, a trait governed by multiple genes that cause changes in the performance of genotypes over different environments. Similar significant effects of genotype and GxE interaction for seedcotton yield were observed by Maleia et al. [5], Pretorius et al. [6], Maleia et al. [16], when evaluating cotton genotypes in multi-environmental trials in Mozambique, Pakistan, South Africa and Brazil. 

Source of Variation

DF

Mean Square

CSY (kg/ha)

GOT (%)

Blocks/Environment

2

507360.8

12.73089

Environments (E)

5

35731792.2**

137.2884**

Genotypes (G)

17

839548.4**

48.77634**

G x E

85

524928.6*

13.60928

Residue (Error)

214

362432.7

11.99569

Total

323

   

Overall Mean

 

2049.392

39.58936

CV (%)

 

29.37573

8.748512

Table 3: Summary of combine ANOVA of seed cotton yield (Kg.ha-1) and Ginning Outturn (%)

** Significant at 1 % of probability, * Significant at 5 % of probability

CSY: Cottonseed Yield; FY: Fiber Yield; GOT: Ginning Outturn.

The decomposition of GxE interaction into principal components (Table 4), among which the first three (PC1, PC2 and PC3) were significant (p < 0.01), explained about 80 % of the detected interaction (33.85 %; 61.60 % and 18.16 for PC1 and PC2, respectively), which makes the stability and adaptability study based on the AMMI method more concise [12]. 

Source of variation

DF

SS

MS

 

Interaction (G x E)

 

 

 

85

44618928.70

524928.60*

Principal

Components

 

%

Accumulated %

 

 

 

PC1

33.85

33.85

21

20136668.37

958888.97*

PC2

27.75

61.60

19

16509778.57

868935.71*

PC3

18.16

79.76

17

10803671.80

635510.23*

Residue (Error)

-

-

 

77560587.20

362432.70

Table 4: Decomposition of GxE interaction of seed cotton yield into principal components.

The AMMI Triplot Graphic (Figure 1), emphasizes that there were a year to year variation indicating the importance of seasonal climatic variation in the same local, as many environments were scatted without any grouping on different quadrants [15]. Maleia et al, [16], found out the similar results when studying the genotype by Environment interaction of different genotypes in Mozambique. The environmental conditions of cotton growing regions in Mozambique are highly diversified and it leads to cultivar environmental variability. Gul et al. [17], studied the genotype by environment interaction and association of yield variables in cotton and found that the seed cotton yield is highly affected by environment complex than genotype itself. So identification of genotypes with high adaptability and stability to the different growing conditions is an option to deal with this fact. Among the introduced new genotypes, the Brazilian IMACD 06-6798 were classified as the most stable followed by the other Brazilian IMA1 08-3917 and the Turkish BA 919 compared to the local CIMSAN 1 and the Zambian Churedza (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Graphic triplot of PC1, PC2 and PC3 of 18 genotypes in 6 environments for Seedcotton yield.

1. ALBAR SZ 9314; 2. BA919; 3. CA324; 4. CHUREDZA; 5. CIMSAN 1; 6. FK37; 7. FLASH; 8. IMA1 -08-3917; 9. IMA1 09-1708; 10. IMA1 09-278; 11. IMACD 058221; 12. IMACD 06-6798; 13. IMACD 8276; 14. IMACD07-6372; 15. IMAIAC 26; 16. IP 60; 17. IP 63; 18.IP75.

ENV1: Namialo 2014/15; ENV2: Balama 2014/15; ENV3: Cuamba 2014/15; ENV4: Namialo 2015/16; ENV5: Cuamba 2015/16; ENV6: Balama 2015/16.

Results showed that the Chinese genotype IP 63 were the most productive compared to other evaluated genotypes and the most productive local were Cuamba in the two seasons, 2014 /15 and 2015/16 (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Comparison of cottonseed yield general mean (kg.ha-1) of 18 genotypes evaluated in 6 environments.

Means with the same letter are not significantly different by Tukey's Studentized Range (HSD) Test.

CONCLUSION

The AMMI was useful to study the GxE interaction and to assess the stability and adaptability on the multi-environmental trial. The results illustrated that the genotypes and environments showed dissimilarity once they were positioned in opposing quadrants and the most stable genotypes across to the different environments were not the most adaptable. Thence, the most productive and adaptable new genotype in terms of seed cotton yield was IP63, but it was unstable. Among the introduced new genotypes, the Brazilian IMACD 06-6798 were classified as the most stable followed by the other Brazilian IMA1 08-3917 and the Turkish BA 919 compared to the local CIMSAN 1 and the Zambian Churedza. The results suggest that the genotypes IMACD 06-6798, IMA1 08-3917, BA 919 should be recommended for cultivation in Mozambique, since they presented an acceptable adaptability and potential stability.

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Citation: Maleia MP, Jamal EC, Savanguane JW, João J, Teca JO (2019) Stability and Adaptability of Cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum L.) Genotypes under Multi Environmental Conditions in Mozambique. J Agron Agri Sci 2: 017.

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