Predicting performance of soybean populations using genetic distances estimated with RAPD markers

In order to verify whether genetic distance (GD) is associated with population mean (PM), genetic variance (GV) and the proportion of superior progenies generated by each cross in advanced generations of selfing (PS), the genetic distances between eight soybean lines (five adapted and three non-adapted) were estimated using 213 polymorphic RAPD markers. The genetic distances were partitioned according to Griffing's Model I Method 4 for diallel analysis, i.e., GDij = GD+ GGDi+ GGDj + SGDij. Phenotypic data were recorded for seed yield and plant height for 25 out of 28 populations of a diallel set derived from the eight soybean lines and evaluated from F2:8 to F2:11 generations. No significant correlation for seed yield was detected between GD and GV, while negative correlations were detected between GD and PM and between GD and PS (r = -0.74** and -0.75**, respectively). Similar results were observed for the correlation between GGDi + GGDj and PM and between GGDi + GGDj and PS (r = -0.78** and -0.80**, respectively). No significant correlation was detected for plant height. The magnitudes of the correlations for seed yield were high enough to allow predictions of the potential of the populations based on RAPD markers.

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Main Authors:	Barroso,Paulo Augusto Vianna, Geraldi,Isaias Olívio, Vieira,Maria Lúcia Carneiro, Pulcinelli,Carlos Eduardo, Vencovsky,Roland, Dias,Carlos Tadeu dos Santos
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2003
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572003000300020
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