SELECTION OF STABLE WHEAT GENOTYPES UNDER DIFFERENT AGRO-ECOLOGICAL ZONES OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN

Wheat is a globally significant cereal crop crucial for ensuring food security. Plant breeders strive to enhance yield potential by developing optimized and stable genotypes. In Pakistan, an agricultural country facing security challenges, annual multi-environment trials (MET)’s systematic conduct transpire across various research stations in Punjab province. Precise data analysis of these paramount strengthening the national system. The primary objective this study was identify wheat genotypes analyzing from MET 31 distinct environments within province during 2020–2021. comprised 50 laid out under alpha lattice design. collected underwent based on additive main effects multiplicative interaction (AMMI) combination with other stability measures. findings revealed that genotype G41 (HYT100-27) exhibited superior performance, ranking top five all Likewise, G27 (TWS17042) G22 (HYT100-100) have four measures recommending these. Notably, G1 (HYT100-74) demonstrated highest average locations gained support two additional Therefore, G41, G27, G22, emerged as most productive among those studied. Regarding environments, MLSI proved desirable, followed RARL. Conversely, ARFG ARFK resulted least ideal environments.