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Diallel Analysis of the Stay-Green Trait and Its Components in Sorghum

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http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci1996.0011183X003600030002x
 
Title Diallel Analysis of the Stay-Green Trait and Its Components in Sorghum
 
Creator Oosterom, E J Van
Jayachandran, R
Bidinger, F R
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Stay-green in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important component of post-flowering drought tolerance. This research was conducted to describe (i) stay-green as post-flowering green leaf area duration (GLAD) and its components [green leaf area (GLA) flowering, timing for onset of senescence, and senescence rate] and (ii) the expression of heterosis for stay-green in terms of heterosis for its components. The study was conducted during the 1992 to 1993 and 1993 to 1994 post-rainy season at ICRISAT headquarters near Hyderabad, India. It involved a nine-parent complete diallel, in two experiments differing in soil-water availability after flowering. Weekly estimations of % GLA were made on 36 leaves per plot. Relative (%days) and absolute (m2 days) GLAD and their components were derived from a fitted logistic function. The variances in both relative and absolute GLAD were each fully (R2 > 0.96) accounted for by their components. In spite of significant genotype × environment interactions for the component traits, the expression of heterosis for non-senescence as related to the stay-green trait was stable across experiments. The inheritance of the onset of senescence was additive, but a slow senescence rate was dominant over a fast rate. Consequently, a large relative GLAD (slow senescence) was partially dominant over a small relative GLAD. Because of the dominance of a large leaf area at flowering, the partial dominance in relative GLAD translated into overdominance for a large absolute GLAD. These results offer an opportunity for improving drought tolerance of sorghum in environments with post-flowering drought stress.
 
Publisher Crop Science Society of America
 
Contributor Saxena, M C
Singh, K B
 
Date 1996
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2745/1/Diallel_analysis_of_the_stay-green_trait_and_its_components_in_sorghum.pdf
Oosterom, E J Van and Jayachandran, R and Bidinger, F R (1996) Diallel Analysis of the Stay-Green Trait and Its Components in Sorghum. Crop Science, 36 (3). pp. 549-555. ISSN 0011-183X