Variability and inheritance of the tillering in barley hybrids

Abstract

Productive tillering is a very important trait which influences the degree of barley lodging resistance. Five dive-gent genotypes of two-rowed winter barley (Vada, Djerdap, NS-293, Jagodinac and Sladoran) have been selected for diallel crossing in order to study the mode of inheritance, the gene effect and the components genetic variance for the productive tillering in F1 and F2 generation. The test of the significance of the generations' mean values related to the parental average was used for inheritance mode determinations (KRALJEVIC-BALALIC et al., 1991) and the genetic variance components and regression VrWr analysis from diallel crossings were made using the method of MATHER and JINKS (1971). The variability of the investigated trait differed. The cross combination Djerdap x Jagodinac had the highest coefficient of variance (39.78%). Different modes of inheritance (partial dominance, dominance and over dominance) and partial dominance were found in the F1 and F2 generation, respectively. The genetic variance components, average degree of dominance and regression line indicated partial dominance in the inheritance of tillering. The range of the obtained values of heritability for the tillering was found to be very wide (0.02-0.47). The cross combinations Djerdap x Jagodinac and Vada x Djerdap were selected for future breeding.