Heritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recovery

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dc.contributor.authorSseremba, Godfrey
dc.contributor.authorTongoona, Pangirayi
dc.contributor.authorEleblu, John
dc.contributor.authorDanquah, Eric Yirenkyi
dc.contributor.authorBalyejusa Kizito, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-29T20:49:21Z
dc.date.available2022-12-29T20:49:21Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractDrought tolerance is a complex trait whose inheritance had not been investigated in Solanum aethiopicum L. Shum group. This is partly because of perceived cross incompatibilities in the crop. This study relied on 24 successful crosses from an incomplete 9×4 North Carolina II mating design, evaluated under five watering conditions based on plant growth stage and watering level in order to determine the heritability of drought resistance and combining ability. Subsequent data analyses were based on restricted maximum likelihood. Overall, specific combining ability (SCA) effects were significant across and within watering environments for all study traits. The most highly heritable traits (in the narrow-sense) were identified as leaves per plant, chlorophyll content (CHL), leaf fresh yield and leaf dry yield while leaf area (LA), leaf relative water content (LRWC) and leaf mass area (LMA) were least heritable. However, the broad sense heritability (H2) was over 0.80 for seven of the traits, indicating that dominance gene action surpass additive gene effects for drought resistance in S. aethiopicum Shum. Further analysis showed that LA is suited for selection of best combiners under wellwatered and drought-stress (DS) treatments. The LRWC served best in separating the SCA effects of crosses under DS. The CHL produced clear separations of SCA effects under both DS and drought recovery while LMA served best under the latter.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSseremba, G., Tongoona, P., Eleblu, J., Danquah, E. Y., & Kizito, E. B. (2018). Heritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recovery. Scientia Horticulturae, 240, 213-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2018.06.028en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2018.06.028
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6760
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherScientia Horticulturaeen_US
dc.subjectSpecific combining abilityen_US
dc.subjectOptimum wateringen_US
dc.subjectDrought tolerance mechanismsen_US
dc.subjectBreeding traitsen_US
dc.subjectHybridizationen_US
dc.subjectAfrican eggplanten_US
dc.titleHeritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recoveryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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