Implicações da capacidade de combinação e da distância genética na seleção de genitores de trigo (Triticum aestivum L.)

Abstract

The identification of efficient methodologies for the choice of parents in breeding programs has received great attention from researchers. The diallel cross is widely used with this purpose, however, as the number of genotypes to be tested increases, its utility becomes increasingly unviable. Alternatives such as measures of dissimilarity (based on morphological dates, molecular and genealogical) have been proposed. Thus, the objective of this study was to estimate the general (CGC) and specific (CEC) of combining , heterosis and inbreeding depression in F1 and F2 generations, through diallel of ten wheat genotypes and to assess the relationship between parents and the performance of their hybrids, with the dissimilarity measures described above.Ten elite parents were crossed in a diallel form, disregarding the reciprocal. The results revealed a greater participation of additive effects on phenotypic expression of the constitutions used. The parents FUNDACEP 50, Pampeano, Abalone and BRS 208 presented the highest values of CGC for grain yield, demonstrating the potential of these genotypes for use in crosses to promote superior progenies.Also, the combinations involving the genotypes BRS Guamirim x BRS 208, UTF 0506 x Timbaúva BRS, BRS 208 x Abalone, CD 115 x Abalone and BRS Timbaúva x Abalone, showed a high degree of heterosis and low inbreeding for characters of greatest agronomy importance. Heterosis revealed by F1 does not warrant segregating populations, because in many cases there was no association with heterosis of F1 and with performance of bulks on F2 generations. Estimates of correlations between the dissimilarity matrices allowed to observe the correlation between the dissimilarity matrices Morophological + AFLP x Molecular AFLP (0.466) and between Morophological + AFLP x pedrigree (0.427). The genealogical distance was positively associated with weight of 100 grains and grain weight per plant in F1 generation (0.67 and 0.62, respectively) and F2 (0.62 and 0.59, respectively), it gives moderate reliability to replace the diallel in the choice of parents. In contrast, the measures of morphological distance and combined (morphological + molecular AFLP), were not associated with the performance of hybrids, in both generations avaliable.