GENETIC STUDIES ON COLD HARDINESS IN MEDICAGO SATIVA L.
GENETIC STUDIES ON COLD HARDINESS IN MEDICAGO SATIVA L.
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苜蓿抗寒性遗传研究。
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107001
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发表时间:
1960
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
C. Greenham
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作者:
H. Daday;C. Greenham
Hardiness was determined at the Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia, by means of measurements of the electrical resistance of the crown after cold treatment of prehardened plants, earlier investigations having shown the phenotypic correlation between electrical resistance and recovery to be high. Highly significant differences in hardiness, expressed as electrical resistance, were demonstrated between clones of Hunter River, the heritability in a broad sense being 0.53 ± 0.23. Using the electrical-resistance technique, a study of crosses involving Hairy Peruvian, Hunter River, Ladak and Rambler indicated that these varieties differed significantly in general combining ability for hardiness, the F1S generally being intermediate in hardiness between the two parents. No indication was obtained of non-additive gene action with respect to hardiness. Rambler contributed a high degree of hardiness to its F1progenies, in contrast to Hairy Peruvian, which conferred only a low degree. In F2African (susceptible) × Rambler (resistant), the correlation coefficient between electrical resistance and winter yield of dry matter was -0.38. The genotypic correlation between these two variables within two varieties (Hunter River and Rambler) was strongly negative. Exposure to a day length of 18 hours instead of to natural light, prior to cold treatment, led to an increase in both winter yield and electric resistance in a mixed population. Although the data on F2individuals did not altogether rule out the possibility of securing recombi-nants with good winter growth and moderate hardiness, the results suggested that selection may be seriously hampered by a negative genotypic correlation between hardiness and winter growth.