Estimative of gene effects for traits related to phosphorus efficiency and responsiveness in tropical maize / Estimativas de efeitos gênicos de diversos caracteres relacionados à eficiência e resposta ao fósforo em milho tropical

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2008

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Low information is available concerning the inheritance of phosphorus (P) efficiency and responsiveness in tropical maize, obtained from trials conducted until maturity in tropical environments. This information is the basis to establish selection strategies for these characteristics. The objective of this study was to investigate the inheritance and relationships between characteristics related to phosphorus efficiency and responsiveness in tropical maize. Six tropical maize lines with contrasting P use efficiency and seven F1´s derived from them were used. The parental lines, F1´s, F2´s, RC1P1, RC1P2, RC2P1 e RC2P2 from each of the seven crosses were evaluated at three low P and two high P environments. Efficiency traits evaluated were: grain weight (GW), grain P concentration (GPC), total P in the shoot (PTOT), P uptake efficiency (PUPE), P internal utilization efficiency (PUTIL), P use efficiency (PUE), P harvest index (PHI) and quotient of utilization (QUTIL). Responsiveness traits evaluated were: grain difference between high and low P environments (DIFGW), ratio GW of low and high P environments (RGW), P apparent recover (PAR), P physiological efficiency (PFIS) and P agronomic efficiency (PAGR). Anther silk interval (ASI), which has been related to drought tolerance, was also determined. The generation means from each cross in each group of environments (low and high soil P) were used to estimate the parameters mean effect (m), additive effects (a), dominant effects (d) and epistatic digenic effects (aa, ad, dd). A 47,10 % mean yield reduction was observed across soil P levels. Dominance effects, followed by epistatic effects (when detected) were more important than additive effects for the majority of the traits studied. Soil P level affected the inheritance of many traits. Dominance estimatives for GW were higher at high P environments than at low P environments and generally,epistatic effects were detected more frequently at low P environments. The component PUPE showed to be two to three times more important than the component PUTIL for the variability observed for P use efficiency under low and high P environments respectively, indicating that mechanisms related to P acquisition were more important than mechanisms related to P internal utilization efficiency in the environments and genotypes studied. PUPE showed low correlation under low and high P environments, suggesting that different mechanism of soil P acquisition should be acting at these environments. PUTIL showed high correlation under low and high P environments suggesting that similar plant internal mechanisms should be acting at low and high P environments. A mediun and negative correlation was observed between ASI and GW at low P environments. Selection criteria that showed to be more adequate to select for P efficiency and responsiveness were: GW under low P environments to determine PUPE under low P soils; grain P concentration under high P environments to determine PUTIL; DIFGW to determine P responsiveness and short ASI at low P environments as an additional selection criteria. Correlations between efficiency and responsiveness traits indicated that it would be possible to obtain efficient and responsive genotypes in the conditions of this study.

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fósforo - eficiência maize inheritance p efficiency zea mays l. milho. genética vegetal hereditariedade p responsiveness

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