( Whitaker et al., 2011 ). Although SSC and TA varied widely among genotypes, clear trends over time could not be observed for these traits. Until recently, there have been no published reports of genetic parameters such as heritabilities and genetic
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Vance M. Whitaker, Luis F. Osorio, Tomas Hasing, and Salvador Gezan
Creighton L. Gupton and Barbara J. Smith
A study was conducted to determine if blackberry cultivars Humble, Rosborough, and Brazos transmit rosette (incited by Cercosporella rubi) resistance and to estimate heritability (h2). Plants of parents and offspring involving these cultivars were rated for rosette severity on a whole plant basis from 0 = no rosette to 7 = all buds infected or plant dead. An estimate of h2 was computed by regression of cross means on parental means. The mean rosette severity rating of plants from crosses was always intermediate between the cultivar and other parents. Only `Humble' transmitted enough rosette tolerance to be usable although `Rosborough' crosses were more tolerant than the other parents. The h2 estimate of 0.48 was fairly high but low variability among parents other than `Humble' would suggest little progress from mass selection.
Abe Shegro Gerrano, Patrick Olusanmi Adebola, Willem Sternberg Jansen van Rensburg, and Sonja Louise Venter
, however, requires information on the genetic variability that exists among available germplasm. Information on the genetic heritability and genetic advance of the targeted traits is also important for efficient selection. This study was therefore carried
C.A. Weber
A partial diallel design was used to investigate the inheritance of tolerance to terbacil herbicide in cultivated strawberry, Fragaria ×ananassa Duch. Two tolerant cultivars, `Honeoye' and `Earliglow', two moderately tolerant cultivars, `Lester' and `Allstar', and two susceptible cultivars, `Red Chief' and `Guardian' were used as parents to create populations that segregated for tolerance to the herbicide. Tolerance rankings of the populations closely coincided with expected rankings based on the published tolerance levels of parental cultivars. `Honeoye' and `Earliglow' derived populations had the highest average tolerance ratings, while `Guardian' derived populations had the lowest tolerance ratings. Heritability was estimated at h2 = 0.50, indicating that significant progress in increasing the tolerance of new cultivars to terbacil can be achieved through traditional recurrent selection procedures. General and specific combining abilities suggest that the tolerant cultivars in this study may be fixed in their tolerance and that increased mean tolerance will be most apparent in progenies combining tolerant and susceptible cultivars. As such, a broader pool of germplasm may be needed to develop cultivars that are more tolerant than those in this study. Chemical names: terbacil (3-tert-butyl-5-chloro-6-methyluracil)
M. Joseph Stephens, Jessica Scalzo, Peter A. Alspach, Ron A. Beatson, and Ann Marie Connor
are certain components that are likely to be better correlated with yield and are more heritable. Dale and Daubeny (1985) showed that high yield in raspberries was closely related to high lateral numbers in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, and
M. Joseph Stephens, Peter A. Alspach, Ron A. Beatson, Chris Winefield, and Emily J. Buck
antioxidants found in relatively high concentrations in raspberries ( Barritt and Torre, 1975 ) and may contribute to high health properties of raspberry ( Olsson et al., 2004 ). These compounds are genetically inherited and have high heritability in raspberry
Dilip R. Panthee, Chunxue Cao, Spencer J. Debenport, Gustavo R. Rodríguez, Joanne A. Labate, Larry D. Robertson, Andrew P. Breksa III, Esther van der Knaap, and Brian B. McSpadden Gardener
multivariate ANOVA option of PROC GLM. Broad-sense heritability ( H ) of the trait was estimated by the entry mean basis ( Nyquist, 1991 ) as follows: where H represents the heritability, is genetic variance, is genotype-by-environment variance, is
Fekadu Gurmu, Shimelis Hussein, and Mark Laing
the expression of traits. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the combining ability, type of gene action, heterosis and heritability of storage root DMC, β-carotene content, and yield-related traits of selected sweetpotato clones
Joseph G. Robins, Blair L. Waldron, and Paul G. Johnson
limiting characteristics of crested wheatgrass for turfgrass. However, the study also identified high levels of broad-sense heritability for turf quality and suggested that breeding efforts aimed at increasing crested wheatgrass turf quality would be
Gerardo H. Nunez, Hilda Patricia Rodríguez-Armenta, Rebecca L. Darnell, and James W. Olmstead
2 ) and residual variances (σ R 2 ) were used to compute the broad-sense heritability ( H 2 ) of each trait. The genetic covariance between two traits (σ G(AB) ) was used to estimate the genetic correlation between them as previously done ( Fita et