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COMBINING ABILITY AND HYBRID VIGOR IN INTERSPECIFIC (Gossypium hirsutum L. x Gossypium barbadense L.) LINE X TESTER HYBRIDS OF COTTON

Guven BORZAN , Ramazan Sadet GUVERCIN

Abstract

Cotton is most important fiber plant having different fiber properties in the world. This study was carried out to increase yield and ginning outturn of seven interspecific (G hirsutum L. x G barbadense L.) pure (F9) lines of cotton. For this, lines were hybridized with Stoneville 468 and Claudia cultivars which belonging to G hirsutum L. genus, in 2018, by Line x Tester mating design. Then, 14 F1 Hybrids were sown with 9 parents according to Randomized Complate Block Design with three replications, in 2019, in Kahramanmaras. In the results of study, BGKM-3 x Stoneville 468 and BGKM-5 x Claudia F1 hybrids had been found very significant for yield and acceptable ginning outturn with good fiber properties. Morever, while BGKM-3 x Stoneville 468 hybrid showed positive for specific combination ability (SCA) in seed cotton yield and ginning outturn, BGKM-3 line showed very important for general combination ability (GCA) in terms of yield and fiber length. Also, Stoneville 468 tester showed important GCA both fiber fineness and ginning outturn. Inheritance for seed cotton yield have been found higher than other traits and determined both environmental and dominant genes are effective on the seed cotton yield. Besides, contribution of lines on total variance were found higher than both testers and lines x testers interaction, excluding fiber fineness.

Keyword: Cotton, fiber properties, interspecific hybrids, Line x Tester, seed cotton yield ,

Effects of Different Water Stress Levels on Biomass Yield and Agronomic Traits of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Varieties under Semi-Arid Conditio

Erdal GONULAL, Suleyman SOYLU, Mehmet SAHIN

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted in the Wielkopolska region at the Gorzyń Research Station, Poland (52.34°N, 15.54°E) in Central Europe. The study was conducted over a 3-year period (2017, 2018, 2019) as a two-factorial design with four replications in the RCBD. The aim of the research was to determine the effect of the cultivar (‘Bolero’, ‘Tytan’) and the inoculation (Nitragina–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora I–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora II–soil inoculation, HiStick® Lupin–seeds inoculation) on plant development, seeds chemical composition and yielding of narrow-leaved lupin. The weather conditions and experimental factors significantly influenced on productivity of narrow-leaved lupin ‘Tytan’. Drought during the growing season reduced seeds and protein yields. After inoculation of HiStck the seeds yield was significantly greater by 12.4% (p < 0.01) and the protein yield after application of Nitroflora I or HiStick by 13.9% (p < 0.01) and 19.2% (p < 0.01), respectively. Correlation coefficients showed strong relations between number of pods and seeds per plant in both cultivars regardless of the inoculation variant, however the strongest relations in both cultivar were proved on HiStick treatment.
Keyword: Biological nitrogen fixation, chemical composition, legumes, protein efficiency, yielding