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José Ricardo Tavares de Albuquerque; Hamurábi Anizio Lins; Manoel Galdino dos Santos; Márcio Alexandre Moreira de Freitas; Fernando Sarmento de Oliveira; Almir Rogério Evangelista de Souza; Lindomar Maria da Silveira; Glauber Henrique de Sousa Nunes; Aurélio Paes Barros Júnior; Paulo Fernando de Melo Jorge Vieira
Glycine max; cultivars; genotype-environment interaction; grain yield; phenotype; soybeans; Brazil
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... Soybean production in Brazil is concentrated in the central and southern regions of the country, although expansion is occurring toward the northeast, where semi-arid conditions are predominant. There is little information on the behavior of soybean cultivars in semiarid climates; therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the interaction of soybean genotypes by environment, adaptabili ...
analysis of variance; climate change; cluster analysis; cultivars; drought tolerance; durum wheat; early development; genetic traits; genetic variation; genotype; genotype-environment interaction; grain yield; human population; provenance; tetraploidy; water stress
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... Expanding the genetic basis of modern wheat cultivars may improve yield stability and increase grain yields under climatic changes, to feed the growing human population. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the potential for incorporation into a durum wheat breeding program of 64 accessions of tetraploid wheats from six sub-species of Triticum turgidum, tested under rainfed (terminal d ...
... Legumes are important in sustainable agriculture and particularly so when they are intercropped with other species. In breeding programs, little attention is paid to their agronomic performance in species mixtures. In red clover, improved persistence is an important breeding goal. We identified traits associated with survival of red clover cultivated in pure stands (PS 3) or in mixtures with grass ...
... Stem rust, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), poses a threat to wheat production in South Africa (SA). Winter wheat cultivar PAN 3161 displays a high level of resistance to stem rust in the field, prompting an investigation into the genetics thereof. An F₂ population developed from a cross between PAN 3161 and the susceptible parent Line 37-07 was tested against Pgt race PTKST in th ...
... Grain weight (GW), one of the yield components of rice (Oryza sativa L.), is an important trait for improving rice productivity. In the 1990s, New Plant Type (NPT) rice breeding focused on improving the yield potential of rice varieties by introducing unique traits from Tropical Japonica Group cultivars. To reveal the genetic factors responsible for yield-related traits of NPT varieties, we previo ...
... This study was aimed to differentiate parental genomes, examining intergenomic composition, and mapping mitotic metaphase chromosomes by localizing parental and 18S rDNA probes in seven interspecific hybrid progenies that originated from Lilium longiflorum. Since single method of in situ hybridization has been widely used in interspecific lily breeding, while in this study, flow cytometry was used ...
... Fusarium wilt is among the major soil borne fungal diseases hindering sweet potato production in temperate regions of the world. Resistant cultivars are important for commercial production as the impact of Fusarium wilt is aggravating due to intensifying climate variability, thus the need for quick screening methods. The objectives of this study were to test a quick screening method at the early g ...
Rodrigo S. Silva; Josias C. Faria; Adriano M. Knupp; Marcelo S. Aguiar; Helton S. Pereira; Amanda L. Ferreira; Antonia L. M. Zaidem; Patrícia V. Pinheiro; Leonardo C. Melo; Thiago Lívio P. O. Souza
... The most important viruses infecting common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Brazil are BCMV, BGMV and CPMMV, the last two transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci occurring simultaneously and causing severe yield losses. Embrapa has previously developed a genetically modified common bean cultivar carrying the 5.1 transgenic event for resistance to BGMV, which is commercially available. This cult ...
... Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) is a dioecious species, with male [XY] and female [XX] individuals. Since male individuals are preferred over females for agricultural production, all-male cultivars have agronomic advantages over mixed-sex cultivars. To produce an all-male cultivar, it is important to obtain a supermale [YY]. Given their morphological similarities, males and supermales ...
... The influence of Fusarium wilt in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is becoming increasingly severe under the influence of global warming in tropical and subtropical regions. Previously, we reported on the development of a PCR-based marker, LG1_v8_116.506Mbp, on LG1 for the resistance to Fusarium wilt race 2. This study investigated genetic resources with novel resistance to race 2 using molecular marke ...
... Combining improved grain yield and end-product quality in durum wheat has become an essential priority for Moroccan breeding programs due to their significant effect on the country's agricultural economy and social system. Landraces and cultivars of distinct germplasm pools constitute an untapped source of genetic variation for durum wheat improvement. To this end, a mixture of genotypes consistin ...
Triticum aestivum; analysis of variance; chlorophyll; cultivars; drought tolerance; genetic variation; heat; leaves; principal component analysis; proline; water stress; wheat
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... Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is predominantly growing in areas where terminal drought stress is the foremost yield-limiting factor. Since genetic variability for drought tolerance is weakened in modern wheat cultivars, exploring the drought tolerance potential of the synthetic backcross-derived wheat lines (SBL) might help to widen genetic diversity for wheat breeders. The variation among 45 selec ...
... Reduced height (Rht) genes are widely used in modern wheat breeding although some confer higher susceptibility to Fusarium head blight (FHB) caused by F. graminearum and other species. Our objective was to test whether the recently identified Rht24b dwarfing allele has a neutral effect on FHB response as reported previously from a single mapping population when unrelated winter wheat cultivars wer ...
... Egypt is considered one of the centers of cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) domestication. However, traditional Egyptian lettuce landraces and their sympatric wild relatives have not been comprehensively described. We assembled a set of 35 lettuce samples from Egypt (landraces of L. sativa Cos and Oilseed types plus L. serriola L.), and compared them with a set of European L. sativa germplasm ...
Fernanda Cupertino Rodrigues; Francisco Charles Santos Silva; Pedro Crescêncio Souza Carneiro; Luiz Alexandre Peternelli; Leonardo Lopes Bhering; Felipe Lopes da Silva
Glycine max; cultivars; genotype-environment interaction; soybeans; Brazil
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... Genotype × environment (GE) interaction can difficult soybean breeding programs to achieve the aim of more productive cultivars. Environment stratification is a way to circumvent this problem. However, multiyear data studies are difficult to work with, because they are, usually, unbalanced. GGE Biplot is an efficient method to find mega-environments, however, it allows for, at most, 30% of the unb ...
... Most agricultural soils worldwide have limited availability of phosphorus (P); thus, crops require supplemental application of P fertilizers. Due to the economic and environmental concerns derived from the use of P fertilizers, identifying and breeding P-efficient lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) cultivars is imperative for the reduction of production costs and implementation of more sustainable practi ...
Pedro Thiago Medeiros Paixão; Ana Carolina Campana Nascimento; Moysés Nascimento; Camila Ferreira Azevedo; Gabriela França Oliveira; Felipe Lopes da Silva; Eveline Teixeira Caixeta
... Brazil stands out worldwide in the production of coffee. The observed increases in its productivity and morpho agronomic traits are the results of the improvement of several methodologies applied in obtaining improved cultivars, among which the predictive methods of genetic value stand out. These contribute significantly to the selection of higher genotypes, increasing the genetic gain per unit ti ...
... Experiments were conducted to study genetics and combining ability for yield and its attributes under Irrigated (E1) and Rainfed (E2) conditions using F1 hybrids derived from Line X Tester mating design by crossing eleven lines with three testers. Significant differences were observed among all the genotypes for all the traits in both E1 and E2 environments. The σ²gca/σ²sca ratio indicated the pre ...
Cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus; Passiflora edulis; agronomic traits; analysis of variance; cultivars; disease progression; passion fruits; prediction; recurrent selection; Brazil
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... In Brazil, the passion fruit woodiness disease is caused by the cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus (CABMV). It is considered one of the most economically important diseases in the passion fruit (Passiflora edulis Sims). This study aims to implement the recurrent selection to develop passion fruit cultivars resistant to CABMV and with good agronomic performance. The experiment was led in Campos dos Go ...
amylases; brown rice; cultivars; genetic improvement; grain quality; nutrition; protein content; staple foods; China
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... Rice is the most staple food consuming in China. During the past six decades, a large number of indica inbred rice cultivars have been developed. However, seldom studies have focused on evaluating the dynamic changes of grain quality improvement among the major cultivars. Our study evaluated the genetic improvement of 12 quality traits in indica inbred rice cultivars developed in rice breeding pro ...
agricultural research; cultivars; early development; fruit weight; fruit yield; fruiting; genetic improvement; peaches; phenology; syrups; Brazil
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... The peach is a traditional crop in the south of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, where 35 million to 50 million cans of peaches in syrup are produced annually. All the raw materials for the peach canneries come from cultivars originated from the peach breeding program of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa Temperate Agriculture), which started before the establishment of Embra ...
... Sheath blight (ShB) caused by Rhizoctonia solani is one of the serious constraints that hamper global rice production. It causes severe yield loss of up to 69% under favorable environmental conditions. The application of chemical fungicides remains the primary approach for the management of this disease. But, overuse of chemical fungicides causes potential health and environmental risk. The use of ...
... The peanut rich in oleic acid in seed oil, also known as high oleic peanut, renders its products superior in human healthy diet, long shelf life and high oxidative stability in food and oil processing. High oleic peanut varieties in China are derived from a handful of high oleic donors with limited genetic background. Improvement of high oleic peanut cultivars by integrating key target traits is c ...
... Cowpea is one of the most important indigenous food and forage legumes in Africa. It serves as a primary source of protein for poor farmers in drought-prone areas of Ethiopia. The crop is used as a source of food, and insurance crop during the dry season. Cowpea is adaptable to a wide range of climatic conditions. Despite this, the yield of the crop is generally low due to lack of stable and droug ...
... This study estimated the genotype × environment interactions for ten yield associated traits in advanced generation hybrids of several cultivars of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with Aegilops kotschyi Boiss. and A. variabilis Eig. using the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) models. Tests were ran over five years at one location in replicated field trials. The AMMI m ...
Aphis glycines; cultivars; genotyping; germplasm; haplotypes; resistance genes; soybeans; China
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... The soybean aphid is one of the main damaging pests of soybean. Host resistance can effectively reduce the loss caused by the damage of soybean aphid. There are abundant soybean germplasm in China, however, few aphid resistant soybeans were identified and genetic backgrounds of them were poorly characterized. In this study, 22 soybean accessions with high soybean aphid resistance (resistant rating ...
Oryza sativa; RING finger domains; chromosomes; cultivars; genome-wide association study; grain yield; growth and development; haplotypes; inbred lines; lead; panicles; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; rice; sequence analysis; Asia
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... Panicle length is an important trait for improving panicle architecture and grain yield in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Two populations were used to identify QTLs associated with panicle length. Based on genotypic data including 788,396 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), twenty eight lead SNPs significantly associated with panicle length in 2018 and 2019 were detected on chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, ...
... Crossbreeding within narrow genetic resources increases the homozygosity of the offspring. Resultant inbreeding depression can reduce the yield potential of the offspring. Slow progress in breeding programs because of inbreeding has been suggested in persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.), but quantitative evidence has been limited. Here we assessed how inbreeding affects a population’s yield-related t ...
Colletotrichum lindemuthianum; anthracnose; beans; chi-square distribution; cultivars; genetic variation; landraces; mature plants; pathogens; recessive genes; seedling emergence; seedlings; Andes region
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... Anthracnose has remained one of the biggest hurdles in improving the productivity of common bean owing to the wide cultivation of the host and higher genetic variability among the pathogen. Hence newer mechanisms of resistance are being explored for developing cultivars with improved yield as well as resistance against the pathogen. The present investigation reports the discovery of the dynamic ph ...
... French bean is one of the most important staple foods in many parts of the world. Among several bacterial, fungal and viral diseases, anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum lindemuthianum is the most widespread and severe disease of French bean. Therefore, the present study was undertaken as prebreeding effort with the objective of introgression of important bean anthracnose resistance gene Co-4 in ...
Coffea canephora; cultivars; employment; ex situ conservation; gene pool; genetic erosion; genetic improvement; genetic stability; hybridization; income; males; open pollination; pollen; Central Africa; Cote d'Ivoire
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... Robusta coffee (Coffea Canephora) is an important source of income and employment, contributing significantly to the economies of many developing countries. This species is split into two genetic groups: Guinean and Congolese. Côte-d’Ivoire is the primary diversification center of the Guinean pool, which offers great potential for genetic improvement. However, genetic erosion of this group is curr ...
... The development of hybrid cultivars is one of the most important contributions of a breeding program. A high allelic fixation of the parent lines is essential to guarantee the uniformity of developed hybrids. In this sense, papaya segregation has been observed in the parent lines, impacting the pattern of the hybrids obtained and, consequently, their commercialization. Thus, this study aimed to ev ...
... Biotic stresses cause severe yield reductions in rice and are a threat to global food security. Developing resistant cultivars is the most affordable and sustainable approach to handling different biotic stresses. CO43 is an elite rice variety of Tamil Nadu susceptible to gall midge (GM) and bacterial blight (BB). In this regard, the current research was carried out to pyramid a major BB resistanc ...
... The objective of this study was to identify the aptitude of sweet potato genotypes derived from botanical seeds and select them for the aptitudes human consumption, ethanol production, and animal feed through separate indices. A row–column incomplete block design was used, restricting relatedness in the draw. A total of 1604 half-sib genotypes resulting from recombination of 55 clones from the ger ...
... Plasmopara viticola is the oomycete that causes downy mildew in grapevines. Varying levels of resistance to P. viticola across grape cultivars allowed quantitative trait loci to be identified. The Rpv3 locus is located at chromosome 18, in a region enriched in TIR-NBS-LRR genes, and the phenotype associated is a high hypersensitive response. In this work, we aimed to identify candidate genes assoc ...
... Leaf rust caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks. is the most prevalent wheat rust worldwide and occurs annually wherever wheat is grown. The most economical and environmentally friendly method to control this fungal disease is genetic resistance, which is achieved through deploying effective resistance genes. Tightly-linked molecular markers facilitate gene tagging and their deployment with other res ...
Allium cepa; bulbs; chlorophyll; cultivars; drought; gas exchange; greenhouses; homeostasis; leaves; malondialdehyde; onions; plant growth; salt stress; temperature; toxicity; water stress
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... Abiotic stresses deteriorate plant growth resulting in devastating yield losses. Salt stress solely cause ionic toxicity and disturbed homeostasis, whereas combined salt and drought stress has more pronounced effects on plants. This study aimed to screen 32 Turkish onion breeding lines and commercial cultivars based on their morpho-physiological and biochemical responses after exposure to drought, ...
... Participatory plant breeding and rapid sensory evaluation are effective techniques for organic cultivar development. Table beet is an important crop for organic growers, and geosmin, a volatile compound which confers earthy aroma, has been suggested as the attribute around which hedonic liking of beet is organized. Open pollinated table beet populations with diverse pigmentation and low (LGC) or h ...
... The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of heterogeneous composite cross populations (CCPs) to increase sustainability and resilience of wheat cropping systems, a so far largely neglected approach. For this purpose, 10 CCPs originating from one CCP created in 2001 and having evolved under different environmental conditions since the F₅, were compared in the F₁₅ and F₁₆ with 10 recen ...
Cucurbita moschata; chromosome mapping; consumer acceptance; cultivars; fruit morphology; fruit quality; fruit weight; fruits; genetic distance; market value; pleiotropy; pumpkins; vegetable crops
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... Pumpkin is a popular vegetable crop and exhibits a broad diversity in fruit shape and size. Fruit-related traits are the decisive factors determining consumer acceptance and market value of pumpkin cultivar. As a result, deciphering the genetic basis of fruit-related traits is of great importance for pumpkin breeding. To address this problem, a F2 population was generated by two Cucurbita moschata ...
... Grain yield is a quantitative trait, which is determined by several agronomic traits. Unfortunately, there is little information about the genetics behind yield components in US rice cultivars. The objectives of the present study were to (1) conduct a QTL study to identify chromosome (chr. hereafter) regions associated with yield traits in two U.S.-developed rice cultivars and (2) identify candida ...
Oryza sativa; additive effect; alleles; cultivars; environmental impact; genetic background; homozygosity; linear models; principal component analysis; quantitative traits; rice
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... In order to obtain novel information about QTL-by-QTL, QTL-by-environment, and QTL-by-QTL-by-environment interactions (QQ, QE, and QQE, respectively), four loci controlling grain length in rice (Oryza sativa L.), that is, GW2, OsLG3b, and GS3, derived from a large-grain cultivar, BG 1, and LKF, from another cultivar, Fusayoshi, were targeted as a model system of quantitative trait. First, four sin ...
... Head splitting is a major physiological disease in cabbage. The most effective approach for controlling head splitting is to deploy genetic resistance by breeding cabbage cultivars with stable resistance. However, the genetic mechanisms regulating head-splitting resistance in cabbage remain largely unknown. Here, we employed the whole-genome resequencing-based approach (QTL-seq) to discover genomi ...
... This study proposes a selection strategy to be applied to a large number of coffee accessions, which can be useful when exploring many genotypes in breeding programs for beverage quality. Over three consecutive years, 270 Arabica coffee accessions from the germplasm collection of Minas Gerais, Brazil, were sensorially characterized. At the end of this period, the 20 genotypes with the greatest pot ...
... Seven field experiments were conducted at three experiment stations representing major sugarcane producing regions in Egypt. Each experiment comprised a randomized complete block design with three replications. Fourteen elite breeding lines typical of those routinely generated in the three final selection stages of sugarcane breeding programs in Egypt, along with one check variety (GT54-9) were ev ...
... Overwintering rice can survive through the natural cold-winter field environment, sprout from rice tillering node in the following spring, tiller, flower, seed, and being harvested in the following autumn, which is a type of an extreme case of cold tolerance of rice. The successful utilization of cold tolerance rice is the most economical strategy for the cold tolerance rice cultivar breeding proj ...
corn; cultivars; drought tolerance; filling period; gene expression; gene expression regulation; protein kinases; sequence analysis; signal transduction; transcriptomics; water stress
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... Drought tolerance is a very complex trait, controlled by multiple genes, difficult to identify and evaluate in maize. Here, we employed RNA-seq transcriptome analysis to identify key differentially expressed genes (DEGs) responding to drought stress in maize at different crop growth stages. Resultantly, 666, 2417, and 7375 drought-responsive DEGS were detected at the flare, tasseling, and grain-fi ...
... Generally, the relation between quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and yield is empirical, and their roles in source-sink dynamics are unclear. A tomato introgression line (IL) population (S. pennellii ILs) was applied to analyze the effect of chromosome segment from wild cultivar on numerous yield-related phenotypes, including plant yield, the weight of vegetative part, the number and weight of indiv ...
... The bienniality of production and the incidence of pests and diseases, such as coffee leaf miner and coffee leaf rust, stands out among the factors that limit coffee crop yield. Obtaining cultivars with greater stability in production and resistance to these biotic agents are among the main objectives of coffee breeding programs. In this way, biotechnological tools such as Genomic Wide Association ...
... Damage generated by insects is one of main restricting factors for soybean production. Stink bugs are a great threat within pests because, by feeding mainly on pods, they cause direct and irreversible damage to developing seeds. Thus, plant resistance is an important management strategy to reduce insect population impact on yield losses. Association mapping can be used as a powerful tool for disse ...