Heritability and correlation among potato tuber traits

  • Bisognin D
  • Rigão M
  • Lopes S
  • et al.
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Abstract

The objectives were to estimate variance, co-variance and heritability components of potato tuber shape and fresh weight and the correlation among these traits in the early generations of selection. Seed and harvested tubers of nine progeny were evaluated for length, larger and smaller diameter and fresh weight. In average, the tubers were lengthy, because the relationship between lenght with larger diameter was 1.30 and with smaller diameter was 1.51. High heritability estimations were gotten for progeny selection, and low heritability for clone selection in the progeny. Heritability estimations got from correlation between generations were high and similar to progeny mean estimations. The tuber shape and fresh weight traits were highly correlated. The breeding gain can be maximized combining the selection among and within progeny to early discard undesirable clones.Os objetivos deste trabalho foram estimar os componentes de variância, covariância e herdabilidade dos caracteres de formato e massa fresca de tubérculos de batata e estimar a correlação entre esses caracteres nas primeiras gerações clonais. Foram avaliados o comprimento, diâmetro maior e menor e massa fresca dos tubérculos-semente e daqueles colhidos de clones de nove progênies. Em média, os tubérculos das progênies foram alongados, pois apresentaram uma relação entre o comprimento com o maior diâmetro de 1,30 e com o menor diâmetro de 1,51. As estimativas de herdabilidade para a seleção de progênies foram altas, enquanto que para a seleção de clones dentro de progênies foram baixas. As estimativas de herdabilidade obtidas com a correlação entre gerações clonais foram altas e similares as de médias de progênies. Os caracteres de formato e tamanho de tubérculo são altamente correlacionados e o ganho genético pode ser maximizado com a seleção entre e dentro de progênies.

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Bisognin, D. A., Rigão, M. H., Lopes, S. J., & Storck, L. (2012). Heritability and correlation among potato tuber traits. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 12(3), 215–219. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-70332012000300009

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