Multi-trait multi-environment diallel analyses for maize breeding
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Multi-trait multi-environment diallel analyses for maize breeding Igor Ferreira Coelho . Rodrigo Silva Alves . Joa˜o Romero do Amaral Santos de Carvalho Rocha . Marco Antoˆnio Peixoto . Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro . Paulo Eduardo Teodoro . Jefferson Fernando Naves Pinto . Ede´sio Fialho dos Reis . Leonardo Lopes Bhering
Received: 9 December 2019 / Accepted: 13 August 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Genetic study in maize (Zea mays) germplasm development is an important step to understand the genetic variability and complementarity between heterotic groups, as well as additive and dominance genetic effects. Thus, diallel analyses have been widely adopted with the aim of identifying the best parental lines and the best crosses. In addition, different environmental conditions make genetic selection difficult. Thus, the objectives of this study were to compare individual and joint analyses of a diallel design through a mixed model methodology for maize breeding, and to evaluate and interpret the genetic effects and their interaction with the environmental effect. Thirteen F2 hybrids were crossed in an incomplete diallel scheme. Seventy-eight inter-population hybrids, and thirteen self-pollinated parents were evaluated. Eleven traits were evaluated, and emphasis was given to the Grain Yield (GY) trait. The I. F. Coelho R. S. Alves J. R. A. S. C. Rocha M. A. Peixoto L. L. Bhering (&) Universidade Federal de Vic¸osa, Vic¸osa, Minas Gerais CEP: 36570-900, Brazil e-mail: [email protected] L. P. R. Teodoro P. E. Teodoro Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Chapada˜o do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul CEP: 79560-000, Brazil J. F. N. Pinto E. F. dos Reis Universidade Federal de Goia´s, Jataı´, Goia´s CEP: 75804-020, Brazil
significance of the GY trait, specifically, varied across environments. Joint analysis, in particular, presented significance for dominance and additive by environment interaction effects. Joint analysis had the highest selective accuracies for six traits. The correlation coefficients showed similar results, with values from 0.15 to 0.50 between pairs of environments. Gains with selection, considering each environment, ranged from 9.17 to 20.66%, when five hybrids were selected. When direct gains were compared with indirect gains, combined analysis confirmed the high efficiency of selection. For selection of parents, combined analysis achieves the same results as direct selection when two parents were selected. Keywords Zea mays Mixed model Genotype by environment interaction General combining ability Specific combining ability Genetic selection
Introduction Some maize (Zea mays) breeding programs are adopting a reverse manner to shorten the breeding process. Access to commercial genetic materials with no transgenic event is free and open in Brazil, allowing researchers to use the genetic materials by themselves as genetic sources for their breeding program. The advantage of this strategy is the assurance of working w
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