Claim · model-written summary
Kernel number per spike had GCA/SCA ratios of 0.31 and 0.20 under normal and water stress, respectively, with significant nonadditive effects.
- Taxon
- Bread Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Outcome
- number of kernel/spikee0
- Direction
- largere0
- Value
- 0.31 and 0.20e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“GCA/SCA ratio for number of kernel/spike was 0.31 and 0.20 in the F1-hybrids under normal and water stress conditions, respectively, indicating that the non-additive were larger than additive effects in the inheritance of number of kernel/spike and both were highly significant”
t0“Bread Wheat”
Title
Kamal Abdu Abdel-Ghani Khair Allah; M. Habouh; E Hassaballa; et al. Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences/Assuit Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2018. doi:10.21608/ajas.2018.26820
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- Observation Wheat genotypes performed worse under water stress than normal conditions.
- Observation P6 was the earliest flowering parent under both conditions.
- Observation P5 flowered at 85.70 days under water stress.
- Observation P1, P2, P4, and P6 had the tallest spikes under both conditions.
- Observation P4 × P5 was the earliest F1 hybrid under normal conditions.
- Observation P1 × P6 was the earliest F1 hybrid under water stress.
- Observation P1 × P3 had the tallest spike under normal conditions.
- Observation P1 × P4 had the tallest spike under water stress.
- Observation Mean grain yield per plant was 32.70 g in normal conditions.
- Observation Mean grain yield per plant was 24.96 g under water stress.
- Observation P6 had the highest parental grain yield per plant under both conditions.
- Observation P4 × P5 had the highest hybrid grain yield per plant under both conditions.
- Observation Specific combining ability exceeded general combining ability for days to 50% heading, indicating nonadditive effects.
- Observation Plant height showed low GCA/SCA ratios, except for the stated irrigated F1 exception.
- Observation GCA/SCA for plant height was 1.08 under normal conditions and 0.80 under water stress.
- Observation Entry 21 and Entry 20 were favorable F1 plant height genotypes under both environments.
- Observation Spike length had low GCA/SCA, indicating predominant nonadditive variance.
- Observation Grain yield per plant had GCA/SCA below unity under both environments, indicating nonadditive inheritance.
- Observation Hundred-grain weight had GCA/SCA ratios of 0.14 and 0.48 under normal and water stress, indicating nonadditive effects.