Heritability of oil content and the onset of flowering in a population of Dimorphotheca pluvialis
1999
Hof, L. | Nieboer, I.G. | Dolstra, O.
To develop efficient breeding strategies for the improvement or oil content and onset or flowering in Dimorphotheca pluvialis, narrow-sense heritabilities or these characters were estimated. Forty plant progenies were tested in 2 years and heritabilities were estimated from parent-offspring regression as well as from half-sib family variance components analyses. For oil content, the heritabilities estimated by means or parent-offspring regression were 0.36 and 0.33 for 1993 and 1994, respectively. The heritabilities obtained from the variance components analyses were 0.41 and 0.23 for the two years. Heritability estimates for onset of flowering showed more variation. From parent-offspring regression, the heritabilities were 0.72 and 0.37, and from variance component analyses the estimates were 0.53 and 0.19 for 1993 and 1994, respectively. The obtained heritability values and realized responses suggest that particularly in early selection generations, even with mass selection, considerable progress can be expected. Since correlation studies revealed neither phenotypic nor genotypic correlation between oil content and onset of flowering, selection for both characters can be undertaken independently.
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