Heritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recovery

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dc.contributor.authorSseremba, Godfrey
dc.contributor.authorTongoonaa, Pangirayi
dc.contributor.authorEleblua, John
dc.contributor.authorDanquaha, Eric Yirenkyi
dc.contributor.authorKizito, Elizabeth B
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-07T08:07:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-21T09:04:50Z
dc.date.available2018-08-07T08:07:30Z
dc.date.available2021-12-21T09:04:50Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.descriptionThis study examined the drought tolerance in a complex trait whose inheritance had not been investigated in Solanum aethiopicum L. Shum group.en_US
dc.description.abstractDrought tolerance is a complex trait whose inheritance had not been investigated in Solanum aethiopicum L. Shum group. This is partly because of perceived cross incompatibilities in the crop. This study relied on 24 successful crosses from an incomplete 9×4 North Carolina II mating design, evaluated under five watering conditions based on plant growth stage and watering level in order to determine the heritability of drought resistance and combining ability. Subsequent data analyses were based on restricted maximum likelihood. Overall, specific combining ability (SCA) effects were significant across and within watering environments for all study traits. The most highly heritable traits (in the narrow-sense) were identified as leaves per plant, chlorophyll content (CHL), leaf fresh yield and leaf dry yield while leaf area (LA), leaf relative water content (LRWC) and leaf mass area (LMA) were least heritable. However, the broad sense heritability (H2) was over 0.80 for seven of the traits, indicating that dominance gene action surpass additive gene effects for drought resistance in S. aethiopicum Shum. Further analysis showed that LA is suited for selection of best combiners under well-watered and drought-stress (DS) treatments. The LRWC served best in separating the SCA effects of crosses under DS. The CHL produced clear separations of SCA effects under both DS and drought recovery while LMA served best under the latter.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSserembaa et al. Heritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recovery. Scientia Horticulture. Vol. 240 Pg. 213-220 (June 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2018.06.028en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/345
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier publicationsen_US
dc.subjectSolanum aethiopicum Shumen_US
dc.subjectBreeding traits – African eggplanten_US
dc.subjectEggplant - Hybridizationen_US
dc.subjectAfrican eggplanten_US
dc.titleHeritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recoveryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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