Claim · model-written summary
Direct selection for increased TA was expected to decrease tobacco yield by 1.9% per cycle.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume0
- Treatment
- direct selection for increased TAe3
- Outcome
- yielde4
- Direction
- decreasee4
- Value
- 1.9% per cyclee4
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Verbatim
e0“A negative genetic correlation between yield and total alkaloids (TA) in tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum L., populations causes decreases in yield when selecting for increased TA”
e3“The increase in TA was about 58% of that expected from direct selection for increased TA”
e4“there would be an expected decrease in yield of 1.9% per cycle”
Title
Restricted Index Selection for Total Alkaloids and Yield in Tobacco
D. F. Matzinger; E. A. Wernsman; W. W. Weeks Crop Science 1989. doi:10.2135/cropsci1989.0011183x002900010018x
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation The genetic correlation between yield and total alkaloids in the base population was negative, at -0.67.
- Intervention effect After three cycles of full-sib family selection, total alkaloids increased 2.5% of the mean per cycle.
- Intervention effect After three cycles of full-sib family selection, yield showed no significant change in tobacco.
- Observation The increase in total alkaloids was about 58% of the increase expected from direct selection.
- Association Selection for increased TA decreased the ratio of particulate matter in smoke to TA in tobacco.
- Observation Particulate matter and TA showed a positive genetic correlation in tobacco.