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Genetic study of bolting and stem length in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) using a factorial cross design

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The objective was to study the genetic basis of bolting and stem length in sugar beet full-sibs, developed by a factorial mating design (N.C. design II). The extent to which the inheritance of these characters can be attributed to the additive and non-dominance variation was investigated. The genetic analysis consisted of three sets (4×10, 4×8, and 3×8) of progenies. Estimates of additive genetic variance (σ2 A) and variance due to dominance deviations with some fractions of epistatic variance (σ2 D) were obtained for both characters. Bolting had a relatively large proportion of total genetic variance accounted for by σ2 A. In most cases, non-additive effects were also important in determining the type of gene action in bolting. Stem length showed similar genetic variation to bolting susceptibility. Bolting resistance seemed to be dominant to the bolting susceptibility in most cases. Narrow sense heritability estimated for bolting was generally very large (0.93 to 0.96), which suggests that early generation selection for bolting resistance in a sugar beet population would be successful.

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Sadeghian, S.Y., Johansson, E. Genetic study of bolting and stem length in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) using a factorial cross design. Euphytica 65, 177–185 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023081

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