Abstract
AbstractKey messageWe evaluate self-organizing maps (SOM) to identify adaptation zones and visualize multi-environment genotypic responses. We apply SOM to multiple traits and crop growth model output of large-scale European sunflower data.AbstractGenotype-by-environment interactions (G × E) complicate the selection of well-adapted varieties. A possible solution is to group trial locations into adaptation zones with G × E occurring mainly between zones. By selecting for good performance inside those zones, response to selection is increased. In this paper, we present a two-step procedure to identify adaptation zones that starts from a self-organizing map (SOM). In the SOM, trials across locations and years are assigned to groups, called units, that are organized on a two-dimensional grid. Units that are further apart contain more distinct trials. In an iterative process of reweighting trial contributions to units, the grid configuration is learnt simultaneously with the trial assignment to units. An aggregation of the units in the SOM by hierarchical clustering then produces environment types, i.e. trials with similar growing conditions. Adaptation zones can subsequently be identified by grouping trial locations with similar distributions of environment types across years. For the construction of SOMs, multiple data types can be combined. We compared environment types and adaptation zones obtained for European sunflower from quantitative traits like yield, oil content, phenology and disease scores with those obtained from environmental indices calculated with the crop growth model Sunflo. We also show how results are affected by input data organization and user-defined weights for genotypes and traits. Adaptation zones for European sunflower as identified by our SOM-based strategy captured substantial genotype-by-location interaction and pointed to trials in Spain, Turkey and South Bulgaria as inducing different genotypic responses.
Funder
Corteva Agriscience
GRDC
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Genetics,Agronomy and Crop Science,General Medicine,Biotechnology
Cited by
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