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ESTIMATES OF GENETIC PARAMETERS USING RELM/BLUP FOR INTRA-POPULATIONAL GENETIC BREEDING OF Platonia insignis Mart.

  • Maria Clideana Cabral Maia,
  • Luciano Medina Macedo,
  • Lúcio Flavo Lopes Vasconcelos,
  • João Pedro Alves Aquino,
  • Luís Cláudio Oliveira,
  • Marcos Deon Vilela Resende

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-67622016000300020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 40, no. 3
pp. 561 – 573

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ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters to support the selection of bacuri progenies for a first cycle of recurrent selection, using the REML/BLUP (restricted maximum likelihood/best linear unbiased prediction) procedure to estimate the variance components and genotypic values. Were evaluated twelve variables in a total of 210 fruits from 39 different seed trees, from a field trial with an experimental design of incomplete blocks with clonal replies among subplots. The three variables related with the fruit development (weight, diameter, length) showed strong correlation, and where fruit length showed higher heritability and potential to be used for indirect selection. Among the 39 progenies evaluated in this study, five present potential to compose the next cycle of recurrent selection, due they hold good selection differential either to agrotechnological variables as to development of bacuri fruit.

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