Significant progressive heterobeltiosis in banana crossbreeding

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationKansas State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationSwedish University of Agricultural Sciencesen
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierMichael Batte: 0000-0002-6793-2967
cg.creator.identifierMoses Nyine: 0000-0002-8409-7588
cg.creator.identifierBrigitte Uwimana: 0000-0001-7460-9001
cg.creator.identifierRony Swennen: 0000-0002-5258-9043
cg.creator.identifierAllan Brown: 0000-0001-9907-6125
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02667-yen
cg.identifier.iitathemeBIOTECH & PLANT BREEDING
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1471-2229en
cg.issue489en
cg.journalBMC Plant Biologyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaAGRONOMYen
cg.subject.iitaBANANAen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT BREEDINGen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.volume20en
dc.contributor.authorBatte, M.en
dc.contributor.authorNyine, M.en
dc.contributor.authorUwimana, Brigitteen
dc.contributor.authorSwennen, Rony L.en
dc.contributor.authorAkech, V.en
dc.contributor.authorBrown, A.en
dc.contributor.authorHovmalm, H.P.en
dc.contributor.authorGeleta, M.en
dc.contributor.authorOrtíz, R.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T12:27:20Zen
dc.date.available2021-07-09T12:27:20Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/114242
dc.titleSignificant progressive heterobeltiosis in banana crossbreedingen
dcterms.abstractBackground Heterobeltiosis is the phenomenon when the hybrid’s performance is superior to its best performing parent. Banana (Musa spp. AAA) breeding is a tedious, time-consuming process, taking up to two decades to develop a consumer acceptable hybrid. Exploiting heterobeltiosis in banana breeding will help to select breeding material with high complementarity, thus increasing banana breeding efficiency. The aim of this study was therefore to determine and document the level of heterobeltiosis of bunch weight and plant stature in the East African highland bananas, in order to identify potential parents that can be used to produce offspring with desired bunch weight and stature after a few crosses. Results This research found significant progressive heterobeltiosis in cross-bred ‘Matooke’ (highland cooking) banana hybrids, also known as NARITAs, when grown together across years with their parents and grandparents in Uganda. Most (all except 4) NARITAs exhibited positive heterobeltiosis for bunch weight, whereas slightly more than half of them had negative heterobeltiosis for stature. The secondary triploid NARITA 17 had the highest heterobeltiosis for bunch weight: 249% versus its ‘Matooke’ grandparent and 136% against its primary tetraploid parent. Broad sense heritability (across three cropping cycles) for yield potential and bunch weight were high (0.84 and 0.76 respectively), while that of plant stature was very low (0.0035). There was a positive significant correlation (P < 0.05) between grandparent heterobeltiosis for bunch weight and genetic distance between parents (r = 0.39, P = 0.036), bunch weight (r = 0.7, P < 0.001), plant stature (r = 0.38, P = 0.033) and yield potential (r = 0.59, P < 0.001). Grandparent heterobeltiosis for plant stature was significantly, but negatively, correlated to the genetic distance between parents (r = − 0.6, P < 0.001). Conclusions Such significant heterobeltiosis exhibited for bunch weight is to our knowledge the largest among main food crops. Since bananas are vegetatively propagated, the effect of heterobeltiosis is easily fixed in the hybrids and will not be lost over time after the release and further commercialization of these hybrids.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2020-10-27
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBatte, M., Nyine, M., Uwimana, B., Swennen, R., Akech, V., Brown, A., ... & Ortiz, R. (2020). Significant progressive heterobeltiosis in banana crossbreeding. BMC Plant Biology, 20:489, 1-12.en
dcterms.extent1-12en
dcterms.issued2020-12
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectbananasen
dcterms.subjecteast africaen
dcterms.subjectgeneticsen
dcterms.subjectmusaen
dcterms.subjectbreedingen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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