This experiment was conducted to analyse different environments in lhe indentification of dv/arf genes m wheat througth lhe giberellic acid (GA) sensitivity reaction. The tests were conducted in 1995, in a greenhouse (GH), laboratory (LA) andfield (Ff) in Porto Alegre and Eldorado do Sul, RS, Brazil. Six genotypes with different heigth were evatualed in GH and LA by treatments with 0 and 100 GA ppm, and in lhe Fl, when plants had two tofour leaves in lhe treatments with 0, 100 and 1000 GA ppm. The heigth measurement was done 20 days after lhe aplication of GA in GH, 18 days in LA andfour-week evaluatíons in lhe FI. The identijication of GA sensitive genotypes was possible in ali environments. The heigth dijference between the treatments was used to compare the environments, and the targer difference were observed in GH and in the Fl. The genotype x environment interaction was not significam, demonstrating showing the possibility ofusing this identification test in thefield. Seven days after the tratment aplication the sensitive of GA genotypes could be detected througth height measurements and visual evaluation.
Triticum aestivum; giberelic acid; sensitivity; dwarf genes; Rht1; Rh2
