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This study was conducted to estimate the degree of association of smut (Ustilago scitaminea Syd.) resistance in sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) between races A and B in Hawaii and to estimate the heritability of resistance to both races. The estimated degree of association was 0.18. Although statistically significant, the degree of association of resistance between races A and B was near zero and therefore of no practical importance. Selection for resistance to one race would have little effect on the frequency of resistance to the other race in the following sexual generation. Heritabilities in the broad sense estimated from the parent population on a plot mean basis were 0.96 and 0.91 for races A and B, respectively. Selection for smut resistance should be very effective between populations of asexual generations. Heritabilities in the narrow sense estimated from parent-progeny regression analysis on a family mean basis were 0.51 and 0.47 for races A and B, respectively. Selecting and breeding for resistance should result in a fairly rapid increase in the frequency of resistance in the progeny population.
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Communicated by G. Wenzel
Contribution from Department of Genetics and Pathology, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assn. Exp. Stn., P.O. Box 1057, Aiea, HI 96701. Published with the approval of the Director as paper no. 652 in the Journal Series of the Exp. Stn., Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Assn. Research funded in part by USDA/ARS Cooperative Agreement No. 58-9AHZ-0-492
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Wu, K.K., Heinz, D.J. & Hogarth, D.M. Association and heritability of sugarcane smut resistance to races A and B in Hawaii. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 75, 754–760 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265601
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