Estimating General and Special Combining Abilities for Economic Traits in Turkish Hybrid Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) Lines.

Abstract

Opiumpoppy (Papaver somniferum L.) is one of the important and oldest cultivated medicinal plant used to extract morphine, papaverine, thebaine, codeine and other alkaloids. This study aimed to determine general and specific combining abilities of F1 hybrids obtained from various crosses and their parental lines for developing appropriate breeding material for future breeding programs. The results confirmed significant differences (p

Keywords

• Alkaloids
• Breeding
• Inheritance
• Morphine
• Papaver somniferum L