Claim · model-written summary
Selection decreased days to 50% flowering by 7.03% across locations.
- Treatment
- Selection for grain yield/plante0
- Outcome
- days to 50% floweringe0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- -7.03 %e0
- Comparator
- bulk samplee0
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Verbatim
e0“Selection for grain yield/plant was accompanied by decrease in days to 50% flowering of -7.43, -6.66% and -7.03 %, increase in 1000-grain weight of 4.27, 5.70 and 4.89% over the bulk sample at Sohag, Qena and across locations, respectively”
Title
PEDIGREE SELECTION FOR YIELD IN GRAIN SORGHUM POPULATION, [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]
H. I Ali; M. A. Ali; K. M. Mahmoud Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences/Assuit Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2006. doi:10.21608/ajas.2006.274157
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Two selection cycles increased grain yield per plant by 5.87% at Sohag.
- Intervention effect Two selection cycles increased grain yield per plant by 3.72% at Qena.
- Intervention effect Two selection cycles increased yield by an average 4.98% across locations.
- Intervention effect Selection decreased days to 50% flowering by 7.43 at Sohag.
- Intervention effect Selection decreased days to 50% flowering by 6.66% at Qena.
- Intervention effect Selection increased thousand grain weight by 4.27% at Sohag.
- Intervention effect Selection increased thousand grain weight by 5.70% at Qena.
- Intervention effect Selection increased thousand grain weight by 4.89% across locations.
- Observation Synergistic selection at Sohag performed better than antagonistic selection at Qena.
- Observation Sufficient genotypic variability remained for yield and other traits.
- Intervention effect Phenotypic and genotypic variance in thousand grain weight decreased slightly after the second cycle.
- Intervention effect Phenotypic and genotypic variance in days to flowering decreased slightly after the second cycle.
- Intervention effect Selection increased plant height variability.
- Observation Family 6 yield rose 44.26% at Sohag versus bulk.
- Observation Family 6 yield rose 27.20% at Qena versus bulk.
- Observation Family 6 yield rose 36.56% across locations versus bulk.
- Observation Family 6 flowered earlier than bulk by 4.44, 4.01 and 4.22% at Sohag, Qena and across locations.
- Observation Family 6 had heavier grains than bulk by 21.25, 11.30 and 16.57%.
- Observation Direct yield selection was effective in improving this sorghum material.