GENETICAL STUDIES ON ROOT SYSTEM AND YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS TRAITS UNDER WATER LIMIT CONDITION IN RICE (Oryza sativa L.) | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 3, Issue 12, December 2012, Page 447-460 PDF (563.75 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jacb.2012.55023 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| S. E. M. Sedeek; R. A. El-Namaky; S. A. A. Hammoud; Howida B. EL-Habet | ||||
| Rice Research & Training Center (RRTC), Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Water limit is one of the major a biotic stress limiting plant production in worldwide. The research work of the present study was carried out at the Experimental Farm of the Rice Research and Training Center (RRTC), Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, during the three successive rice seasons 2010, 2011 and 2012, to study the genetic effects on some of root system related to water limit and yield and its component traits under water limit condition. Six rice genotypes i.e. Giza 177, Sakha 101, GZ 7456-13-6-5-3, Sakha 105 (sensitive to drought stress), IRAT 112 and IRAT 170 (tolerant to drought stress), were chosen for this study. The results of this investigation revealed that both general and specific combining ability variances were found to be highly significant for all studied traits except root thickness, root dry weight and 1000-grain weight, indicating the importance of both additive and non-additive genetic variance in determining the inheritance of these studied traits i.e. root length, root volume, plant height, No. of days to heading, , No. of panicles/plant, No. of filled grains/panicle and grain yield/plant. With the exception of No. of panicles/plant and grain yield/plant, the GCA/SCA variances were found to be greater than unity for all the studied traits except for No. of panicles/plant and grain yield/plant, suggesting greater importance of additive genetic variance in the inheritance of these traits. Therefore, it could be concluded that selection procedures based on the accumulation of additive effect would be successful in improving of these traits. The results showed that IRAT 112 and IRAT 170 were highly significant and positive general combining ability effects for maximum root length, root thickness, root volume, root dry weight and yield and its component traits under water limit condition indicating that these genotypes could be considered as good combiners for the improvement of these traits i.e. Sakha 105 x IRAT 112 for maximum root length, Sakha 101 x IRAT 112 for root thickness, Giza 177 x IRAT 112 for root volume, IRAT 112x IRAT 170 for root dry weight and Sakha 101 x IRAT 170,Sakha 101 x IRAT 112 for grain yield/plant under water limit condition. Frequency distribution of phenotypes for each trait in F2 and their parents, all studied traits approximately fit normal distribution, F2 plants having phenotypic values greater than the higher parent and less than the lower parent (Transgressive Segregates) were observed for all studied traits. | ||||
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