Table 2.
Provenance and collection site seasonal climate of germplasm evaluated in 2008 and 2010 experimentsAbbreviations as follows: Clus, cluster defined in Berger et al. (2008a ); cv., cultivar; Aus, Australia; Bys, Belarus; Deu, Germany; Esp, Spain; Hun, Hungary; Isr, Israel; Mar, Morocco; Pol, Poland; Prt, Portugal; SUN, former Soviet Union; pre-seas, pre-season; veg, vegetative phase; rep, reproductive phase; temp, temperature.
| Cluster category | Habitat | Germplasm origin (n) | Cultivar names | Rainfall (mm) | Mean temp (ºC) | Rep temp change | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seas | Veg | Rep | Veg | Rep | (ºC d–1) | ||||
| Cluster 1 European cv. | European spring-sown. Low rainfall, cool, rapidly warming veg phase; med rainfall, warm, but cooling rep phase: low terminal drought stress (TDS) | 5: Bys, 1; Deu, 1; Hun, 1; Pol, 1; SUN, 1 | Grodnenskii, Puissant, Gardenaj, Teo-105 (Wodjilb), Zhitomirsky 775 | 306 | 105 | 216 | 10.8 | 17.2 | –0.01 |
| Cluster 3 Australian cv. | Mediterranean short season. Med rainfall, warm veg and rep phases (temp increasing over time): med-high TDS | 1: Aus | Pootallong | 98 | 189 | 97 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 0.10 |
| Cluster 2 wild (W) | Mediterranean long season. High-rainfall cool, frosty veg phase; cool, wet rep phase: low TDS | 5: Prt, 4; Esp, 1a | 76 | 625 | 468 | 11.0 | 14.9 | 0.07 | |
| Cluster 3 wild (W) | (See Cluster 3 above) | 5: Isr, 3; Mar,2 | 14 | 312 | 165 | 15.5 | 17.3 | 0.08 | |
a Spanish wild germplasm (PNO 22948) only evaluated in 2010.
b Wodjil: an Australian cultivar selected from the Polish line Teo-105. (Treated as an Australian, rather than European cultivar in subsequent analyses)