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ESTIMATION OF COMBINING ABILITY EFFECTS, HETEROSIS AND HETEROBELTIOSIS BY LINE X TESTER METHOD IN MAIZE

Cahit KONAK, Aydın ÜNAY, Ebru SERTER, Hüseyin BAŞAL

Abstract

The data from an experiment consisting of four testers and six lines of maize selected deliberately have been analysed. The study showed higher specific combining ability for grain yield, thousand kernel weight, number of nodes, first ear height, ear length and earliness, but higher general combining ability for plant height and number of rows on ear. The presence of marked additive and non-additive gene effects indicated the need for exploiting both fixable and non-fixable components of genetic variance for increasing productivity in maize. Of parental lines, N.7A, H.96, A.619, W-552 and IDRN Cornell were found to posses high general combining ability for yield. Parent A.634 contributed for thousand kernel weight whereas H.96 was good general combiner for plant height and ear height. The crosses N.7A x IDRN Cornell, H.96 x ALKD-222, N.7A x W-552, A.619 x W- 552, DN.B X IDRN Cornell and H.96 x IDRN Cornell might be considered as promising combinations in terms of their yields, heterosis and heterobeltiosis and specific combining ability estimates.

Keyword: kernel weight ,fixable and non-fixable components ,parental lines ,

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