Effect of different proportions of exotic germplasm on grain yield and grain moisture in maize
2011
Nastasić, A., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Ivanović, M., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Stojaković, M., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Stanisavljević, D., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Treskić, S., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Mitrović, B., Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Dražić, S., Institute for Medicinal Plant Research Dr Josif Pančić, Belgrade (Serbia)
Two main questions in programs introgressing exotic maize germplasm into temperate materials are the choice of available exotic sources to work with, and the proportion of exotic germplasm that should be incorporated into adapted germplasm. The objective of this study was to compare effects of different proportions of tropical maize inbred line NC298 in hybrids male parent on grain yield and grain moisture content, using method of orthogonal polynomials Methods of direct crosses and backcrosses were used to form four hybrid groups (six hybrids each) containing 0, 25, 50 and 75 percent of tropical exotic germplasm, respectively, by their male parent (or one half of mentioned proportions in the corresponding hybrids). The linear components of the germplasm proportions sum of squares, were significant (p is less than 0.01) for both grain yield and moisture content and the cubic effect (p is less than 0.05) for grain yield only. Results in this study clearly suggested backcross foundation populations with an adapted line to be appropriate selection sources for both grain yield and grain moisture content.
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