New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science abstracts

---

Short communication
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) variety release recommendations for Papua New Guinea based on multi-location trials

D. Singh^1,2, *
J. Guaf²
T. Okpul³
G. Wiles²
D. Hunter¹

¹ Secretariat of the Pacific Community Suva, Fiji
² National Agricultural Research Institute
 Lae, Papua New Guinea
³ The University of Technology
 Lae, Papua New Guinea
*Present address: Plant Breeding Institute Cobbitty, The University of Sydney, Private Mail Bag 11, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia. email: dsingh@camden.usyd.edu.au

Abstract Multi-location trials were conducted on six elite lines originating from the third cycle of the Papua New Guinea taro (Colocasia esculenta) breeding programme based on modified recurrent selection. The trials identified the multi-trait superiority of line C3-E10 over other five elite lines on the basis of high yield, taro leaf blight resistance, yield stability over a range of environments, and good eating quality. Line C3-E10 also showed an added advantage of rare flowering, which is helpful in restoring corm shape and better suckering ability. Based on this superiority, line C3-E10 has been released to farmers of Papua New Guinea (under the name NT 04) and for regional multi-location trials for the South Pacific region.

Keywords taro; Colocasia esculenta; breeding; genotype-by-environment; multi-location trials; variety release

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2006, Vol. 34: 163–171
0014–0671/06/3402–0163      © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2006
H05104; Online publication date 27 April 2006. Received 9 September 2005; accepted 7 February 2006

PDF file of entire paper: Print-quality (271K) | screen-quality (217K)

---

This year's abstracts | Journal home page | All abstracts | Publishing home page