The present study had the objective of a genotypic evaluation of common bean lines in the state of São Paulo. Genotypic values of the lines for each location and for the environment mean of all locations were predicted as well. Studies on the adaptability and stability of the predicted genotypic values were realized by the BLUP procedure. The cultivar Graúna and line GEN 96A31 presented an average superiority of 10% over the general mean of the 15 environments. These values were computed including the penalization of the lines for the instability across locations and simultaneously crediting the response capacity (adaptability) to improved environments, using intrinsic properties of the MHPRVG method (Harmonic mean of the relative performance of the genetic values). The methods MHPRVG, Lin & Binns and Annicchiarico selected the same lines. Moreover, the results provided by the method MHPRVG were in the same measurement scale of the evaluated trait and were directly interpreted as genetic values simultaneously, for yield, stability and adaptability.
BLUP; MHPRVG; Phaseolus vulgaris; breeding; adaptability
