Genetic distance and its association with heterosis in cacao

Genetic distance and its association with heterosis in cacao

The efficiency of cacao breeding program can be increased by choosing superior crosses to be made between divergent clones. We assessed the genetic distance among five clones with RAPD data (genetic distance - GD) and with yield component data (Mahalanobis distance - MD). The clones were evaluated i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luiz Antônio dos Santos Dias, Jane Marita, Cosme Damião Cruz, Everaldo Gonçalves de Barros, Tânia Maria Fernandes Salomão
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2003-06-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
Subjects:
Genetic distances
heterosis
performance data
RAPD data
Theobroma cacao L.
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132003000300005

Similar Items

Similar Items