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Inheritance of osmotic adjustment to water stress in three grain sorghum crosses

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Basnayake, J., Cooper, M., Ludlow, M.M., Henzell, R.G. and Snell, P.J. (1995) Inheritance of osmotic adjustment to water stress in three grain sorghum crosses. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 90 . pp. 675-682. ISSN 0040-5752

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Article Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222133

Abstract

Water stress is one of the major constraints to the grain yield of sorghum in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world. Osmotic adjustment has been widely proposed as a plant attribute that confers adaptation to water stress. The inheritance of osmotic adjustment to water stress was investigated in a series of generations derived from the three possible bi-parental crosses between two inbred sorghum lines with a high capacity for osmotic adjustment (Tx2813 and TAM422; high-OA lines) and one with a low capacity (QL27; low-OA line). Broad-sense heritability on a single-plant basis was generally found to be high. Analysis of segregation ratios by the mixture method of clustering identified two independent major genes for high osmotic adjustment. The line Tx2813 possessed a recessive gene which is given the symbol oa1; the line TAM422 possessed an additive gene which is given the symbol OA2. There was some evidence that there may be other minor genes which influence the expression of osmotic adjustment in these crosses as two putative transgressive segregants, with higher osmotic adjustment than the parents, were identified from the cross between Tx2813 and TAM422. Populations of recombinant inbred lines were developed and characterised for osmotic adjustment for two of the crosses (QL27 x TAM422, low-OA x high-OA; Tx2813 x TAM422, high-oal x high-OA2). These will be used to conduct experiments which test hypotheses about the contribution of the high-osmotic-adjustment genes to the grain yield of sorghum under a range of water-stress conditions.

Item Type:Article
Keywords:sorghum; water stress; osmotic adjustment; inheritance; major genes; mixture method of clustering
Subjects:Science > Botany > Genetics
Plant culture > Field crops > Sorghum
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