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Breeding for resistance to yellow disease of hyacinths. II. Influence of flowering time, leaf characters, stomata and chromosome number on the degree of resistance

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Analysis of an incomplete diallel design with 14 hyacinth cultivars and 4 wild accessions of Hyacinthus orientalis showed a significant GCA component for resistance to yellow disease. The late flowering hyacinth cultivars ‘King of the Blues’ and ‘Marconi’ and the early flowering Hyacinthus orientalis 70129 were found to be the best combiners for yellow disease resistance. Within a cultivar, the degree of earliness itself was not associated with the degree of resistance. Correlation coefficients of leaf characters and degree of resistance showed that hyacinths with short and/or narrow leaves are generally more resistant than those with long and/or broad leaves. Tetraploid cultivars with few, large stomata tend to be susceptible, diploid ones with many small stomata tend to be the more resistant.

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Van Tuyl, J.M. Breeding for resistance to yellow disease of hyacinths. II. Influence of flowering time, leaf characters, stomata and chromosome number on the degree of resistance. Euphytica 31, 621–628 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00039200

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