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KMID : 0368420070500040504
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Journal of Plant Biology
2007 Volume.50 No. 4 p.504 ~ p.507
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Inheritance of grain filling duration in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em thell)
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Kamaluddin
Singh Rishi Muni
Abdin Malik Zainul
Khan Mather Ali
Alam Tanweer
Khan Salim
Prasad Lal Chand
Joshi Arun Kumar
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Abstract
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To understand the genetic control of grain filling duration (GFD), i.e., the number of days from anthesis to physiological maturity, we studied the F1, F2, BC1 and BC2 generations of six spring wheat crosses from nine varieties/genotypes. Generation mean analysis for gene effects indicated that one or more types of epistasis were significant in all crosses. In each pairing, the F1 and F2 means were either intermediate or closer to the mean of the parent having the longer GFD. Our narrow-sense heritability estimate was reasonably high, at 47.67 (based on diallel analysis). This demonstrated that progress could be made from the selection in these crosses for either long or short GFD. The two early varieties that had identical maturity durations differed in their GFD values, indicating that maturity dates are not good criteria when choosing parents for modifying GFD. To utilize favorable additive × additive effects during this selection, we suggest that a single seed descent (SSD) or bulk popula-tion approach be adopted. In comparison, dominance effects would prove quite useful in hybrid wheat breeding programs.
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KEYWORD
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additive x additive gene effects, generation mean analysis, grain filling duration, Triticum aestivum, wheat
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