Inheritance of UV-B tolerance in seven ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh. and their F1 hybrids

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We used a partial diallel mating design to examine morphologic response to supplementary ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation of seven ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh. from several geographic locations in Europe. We were particularly interested in the inheritance of UV-B tolerance by the F1 generation. Morphologic traits included plant height, rosette diameter, number of shoots (lateral branches from the rosette) and branches (lateral branches above the rosette), and reproductive and vegetative dry mass. To effect a large difference in UV treatments, plants under treatment received 11 kJ/m2/day of biologically effective UV-B radiation while control plants received no UV-B radiation. Genotype effects were observed for all traits (P < .0001), but a significant treatment effect and genotype x treatment interactions were detected only for plant height (P = .0001), rosette diameter (P = .0229), and vegetative (P = .0260) and reproductive dry mass (P = .0900). General combining ability was significant for plant height (P < .0001) and vegetative mass (P = .0563), whereas specific combining ability was significant for rosette diameter (P = .0220) and vegetative mass (P = .0506). These results suggest that both pure lines and hybrids of Arabidopsis can be developed for greater tolerance of UV-B radiation. Similar findings for crop species might lead to the development of UV tolerant varieties.

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Torabinejad, J., & Caldwell, M. M. (2000). Inheritance of UV-B tolerance in seven ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh. and their F1 hybrids. In Journal of Heredity (Vol. 91, pp. 228–233). https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/91.3.228

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