Claim · model-written summary
Hybrids and parents differed significantly in sodium, phosphorus and potassium contents.
- Taxon
- Gynandropsis gynandra
Gynandropsis gynandrae0 - Outcome
- sodium, phosphorus, and potassiume1
- Value
- p < 0.001e1
- Comparator
- parentse1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingDirectionQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Spider plant (Gynandropsis gynandra) is a leafy vegetable rich in micronutrients”
e1“Significant differences (p < 0.001) were observed among and between hybrids and parents for iron, zinc, copper, manganese, calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, and potassium contents”
Title
Aristide Carlos Houdegbe; Enoch G. Achigan-Dako; E. O. Dêêdi Sogbohossou; et al. PLoS ONE 2025. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0332095
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Hybrids and parents differed significantly in iron, zinc and copper contents.
- Observation Hybrids and parents differed significantly in manganese, calcium and magnesium contents.
- Observation The genotype × year interaction was significant, with variance greater than the genotypic variance.
- Observation Both additive and nonadditive gene action controlled mineral content, with a predominance of nonadditive gene action.
- Observation Mid- and best-parent heterosis for mineral content ranged from -80.4% to 389.5%.
- Observation Parents with good general combining ability were identified.
- Observation Significant and moderate to strong correlations exist between mean hybrid performance, specific combining ability effects and heterosis levels.
- Observation Low to moderate correlations exist between general combining ability and the performance of the mean parents.
- Recommendation Hybridization in G. gynandra contributes to improving the mineral content.
- Recommendation G. gynandra can serve as a model crop to study the genetic mechanism underlying heterosis in leafy vegetables.