Finger Millet Stress Tolerance Trials in Dubai, 2020-2022

80 finger millet accessions were evaluated under fresh and saline water irrigation in Dubai during the 2020/2021 season. Validation trials on a selected elite subset were conducted under optimum, salinity, and drought-stress regimes in the 2021/2022 season. The study, authored by Abidemi Talabi, identified stable, broadly adapted accessions for combined stress tolerance.

Use Cases

• Identifying stress-tolerant crop genotypes based on grain yield (GYLD) and dry fodder yield (DFYLD) performance.
• Analyzing genotype-by-treatment (G × T) interaction effects on yield under saline and water-deficit conditions.
• Applying the multi-trait genotype–ideotype distance index (MGIDI) for selecting elite plant accessions.
• Validating genetic gain and heritability (H²) for yield traits across multiple stress treatments.

Strengths

• Data covers a 2-year validation period (2020/2021 and 2021/2022 cropping seasons).
• Reports a specific genetic gain of 167% in grain yield for selected elite accessions under high saline irrigation.
• Includes results from four distinct validation treatments (0 dS/m, 6 dS/m, 10 dS/m, and 50% irrigation).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data is presented in a PDF (197.8 KB), which is a tiny dataset and may require extraction for analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Abidemi Talabi.

Collection Method

Field trials evaluating 80 finger millet accessions under controlled saline and water-deficit irrigation regimes.

Time Range

2020/2021 to 2021/2022 cropping seasons.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:35:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dubai, representing desert conditions.