The objectives of this work were to study the representability of selected locations in the Paraná State, Brazil, used to carry out the final yield trials on soybean lines in the period 1990/2000 and to perform a stability and adaptability study on the soybean lines evaluated in 1999/2000. In the trials, the breeding lines are classified as early maturity group, semi-early maturity group and medium maturity group. Similar response patterns of lines from the different maturity groups were observed in some locations, for all or most of the evaluated years. These patterns depended on the maturity group. However, trials in Londrina/Cambé, Campo Mourão, Guarapuava/Mariópolis and Sertaneja were frequently indicated. The place in Ponta Grossa - 1 was efficient to discriminate early maturity lines, and in Ponta Grossa - 2, for semi-early and medium maturity lines. The stability and adaptability analyses showed that the early lines BR95-7613, BRS 137, OC95-3006 and CD96-518 are high yielding, with general adaptability and good predictability of response. The semi-early line BR96-25619 showed the highest yielding performance in both favorable and unfavorable environments and can be indicated as having a general adaptability. Other semi-early lines with good performance, such as BR96-18710 and BRS 154, can be indicated to favorable and general (favorable and unfavorable) environments, respectively. The medium maturity lines OC95-3194, BR96-12086 and BR96-16185 showed good performance in both favorable and unfavorable environments.
Glycine max; progeny; adaptation; genetic stability; breeding methods
