1. HETEROSIS INTERVARIETAL EN TOMATE DE CÁSCARA (Physalis ixocarpa Brot.)
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Aureliano Peña-Lomelí, José D. Molina-Galán, Jaime Sahagún-Castellanos, Fidel Márquez-Sánchez, J. Ortiz-Cereceres, and Tarcicio Cervantes-Santana
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Horticulture ,Fruit weight ,Heterosis ,Plant Science ,Mating design ,Biology ,Parthenocarpy ,Physalis ixocarpa ,Husk ,Hybrid - Abstract
In the present work a dialelic mating design with ten varieties of different husk tomato (Physalis ixocarpa Brot.) races was made. The objectives were to study the magnitude of the heterosis between varieties, to define the heterotic pattern, and the relative importance of additive and non additive effects. Dialelic crosses were made in the fall of 1994 and 1995, and they were evaluated in two loca-tions during the spring-summer cycle of 1996. From the ten studied varieties nine of them were self-incompatibles and the other one was self-fertile; however, the self-fertile variety did not produce fertile descendants when it was crossed with the others, but those crosses induced parthenocarpy. This phenomenon was also observed in the self-incompatible varieties when they were self-pollinated. Maternal and reciprocal effects were not significant; therefore, the inheritance of average fruit weight (AFW), fruits number per plant (FNP) and total yield per plant (TYP) traits was basically nuclear. The general combining ability effects were significant in the three studied traits and the specific combining ability effects were significant just in AFW; therefore, in FNP and TYP the additive affects were more important than the non additive ones. The average heterosis of the intervarietal hybrids was significant in the three studied traits (AFW = - 5.73 , FNP = 10.42 y TYP = 17.19 %). The hybrid between the Verde Puebla and CHF1-Chapingo varieties presented more TYP (14.29 %) than the best variety and its specific heterosis effect was more important than the varietal heterosis effect, in the three.
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- 1998
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