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Diallel Analysis and Heritability of Grain Yield, Yield Components, and Maturity Traits in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.)
Joint Authors
Owusu, Emmanuel Yaw
Adjebeng-Danquah, Joseph
Mohammed, Haruna
Manigben, Kulai Amadu
Kusi, Francis
Karikari, Benjamin
Sie, Emmanuel Kofi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-08-01
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Information on combining ability and reciprocal effects (REC) facilitates efficient utilization of genetic materials in a breeding program.
This study was conducted (at the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana) to determine general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA), heritability, genetic advance, GCA, and SCA effects as well as the relationship between parents per se performance and progenies for yield components and maturity traits in cowpea.
The test populations were derived using a 5 × 5 complete diallel cross of parents with different yield attributes and maturity durations.
The results indicated that GCA was predominant for number of days to 90% pod maturity, plant height at maturity, and hundred-seed weight.
This showed that genes with additive effects conditioned these traits.
Padi-Tuya, Songotra, and IT86D-610 were identified as good general combiners for grain yield, while Sanzi-Nya was identified as a general combiner for developing extra-early duration cowpea varieties.
Crosses Songotra × Sanzi-Nya, SARC-1-57-2 × IT86D-610, Songotra × SARC-1-57-2, and Padi-Tuya × Songotra were identified as good specific combiners for days to 50% flowering, pod length, pods per plant, pod yield, grain yield, and seeds per pod.
The findings from this study provide useful information on the inheritance of early maturity and yield traits in cowpea.
This can be exploited to develop high yielding and early maturing cowpea varieties as climate smart strategy to mitigate climate change via breeding methods such as pedigree selection and marker assisted backcrossing (MABC).
Pedigree selection method is being used to develop varieties from the hybrid with high and significant SCA for grain yield, whereas the development of extra-early duration varieties via MABC with Sanzi-Nya (general combiner for earliness traits) as a donor parent is ongoing.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Owusu, Emmanuel Yaw& Mohammed, Haruna& Manigben, Kulai Amadu& Adjebeng-Danquah, Joseph& Kusi, Francis& Karikari, Benjamin…[et al.]. 2020. Diallel Analysis and Heritability of Grain Yield, Yield Components, and Maturity Traits in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.). The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214150
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Owusu, Emmanuel Yaw…[et al.]. Diallel Analysis and Heritability of Grain Yield, Yield Components, and Maturity Traits in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.). The Scientific World Journal No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214150
American Medical Association (AMA)
Owusu, Emmanuel Yaw& Mohammed, Haruna& Manigben, Kulai Amadu& Adjebeng-Danquah, Joseph& Kusi, Francis& Karikari, Benjamin…[et al.]. Diallel Analysis and Heritability of Grain Yield, Yield Components, and Maturity Traits in Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.). The Scientific World Journal. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214150
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214150