, T. N. 2009. Protein concentration inheritance and selection in durum wheat. Can. J. Plant Sci. 89: 601Á612. Grain protein concentration is important in the determination of the value of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum) for pasta manufacture. This study was undertaken to investigate the heritability and inheritance of protein concentration in seven genetically diverse durum populations, and to determine if the precision of this information could be improved by adjustment for micro-environmental trends. Grain protein and grain yield were measured at multiple locations and years. The Papadakis method was used to adjust for environmental trends in these replicated trials, and the moving mean was used for confimation in a sample of 19 unreplicated breeding trials. Environmental trends were substantial, and trend adjustment improved both correlations among locations and precision. Consequently, trend adjustment may be useful for genetic studies to improve trial precision, but would be of questionable merit in early-generation breeding trials due to the cost of additional protein measurements and marginal improvement in selection response. Grain yield was negatively correlated with grain protein concentration in all trials. Protein concentration was moderately heritable and complexly inherited in these populations, with the number of estimated effective factors ranging from 5 to 17 for the majority of trials. The complexity of inheritance and interactions of protein with yield and environment makes early-generation selection for protein difficult. Cette e´tude devait pre´ciser l'he´re´dite´de ce facteur chez sept populations de ble´dur ge´ne´tiquement diffe´rentes et de´terminer si on pouvait rehausser la pre´cision d'une telle information en tenant compte des tendances micro environnementales. Les auteurs ont mesure´la concentration de prote´ines dans le grain et le rendement grainier a`maints endroits et pendant plusieurs anne´es. Ils ont recouru a`la me´thode de Papadakis pour ajuster les tendances environnementales dans ces essais re´pe´te´s et se sont servis d'une moyenne mobile pour obtenir confirmation des re´sultats avec un e´chantillon de 19 essais d'hybridation sans re´plication. Les tendances environnementales e´taient substantielles et leur ajustement rehausse a`la fois les corre´lations d'un lieu a`l'autre et la pre´cision. Par conse´quent, cette technique pourrait faciliter les e´tudes ge´ne´tiques en ame´liorant la pre´cision des essais, mais son utilite´reste douteuse pour les essais d'hybridation portant sur les premie`res ge´ne´rations a`cause du couˆt supple´mentaire associe´au dosage additionnel des prote´ines et de l'ame´lioration minime des effets de la se´lection. Le rendement grainier e´tait corre´le´ne´gativement a`la concentration de prote´ines dans le grain dans tous les essais. La concentration de prote´ines est un caracte`re mode´re´ment he´re´ditaire et d'une he´re´dite´complexe chez ces populations, le nombre de facteurs efficaces variant de 5 a`17 pour la plupart des essai...