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024 8 _ahttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00841
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041 _aeng
100 1 _94748
_aAbdulmalik, R.O.
245 1 0 _aGenetic gains in grain yield of a maize population improved through marker assisted recurrent selection under stress and non-stress conditions in West Africa
_h[Electronic Resource]
260 _aSwitzerland :
_bFrontiers,
_c2017.
500 _aPeer review
500 _aOpen Access
520 _aMarker-assisted recurrent selection (MARS) is a breeding method used to accumulate favorable alleles that for example confer tolerance to drought in inbred lines from several genomic regions within a single population. A bi-parental cross formed from two parents that combine resistance to Striga hermonthica with drought tolerance, which was improved through MARS, was used to assess changes in the frequency of favorable alleles and its impact on inbred line improvement. A total of 200 testcrosses of randomly selected S1 lines derived from the original (C0) and advanced selection cycles of this bi-parental population, were evaluated under drought stress (DS) and well-watered (WW) conditions at Ikenne and under artificial Striga infestation at Abuja and Mokwa in Nigeria in 2014 and 2015. Also, 60 randomly selected S1 lines each derived from the four cycles (C0, C1, C2, C3) were genotyped with 233 SNP markers using KASP assay. The results showed that the frequency of favorable alleles increased with MARS in the bi-parental population with none of the markers showing fixation. The gain in grain yield was not significant under DS condition due to the combined effect of DS and armyworm infestation in 2015. Because the parents used for developing the bi-parental cross combined tolerance to drought with resistance to Striga, improvement in grain yield under DS did not result in undesirable changes in resistance to the parasite in the bi-parental maize population improved through MARS. MARS increased the mean number of combinations of favorable alleles in S1 lines from 114 in C0 to 124 in C3. The level of heterozygosity decreased by 15%, while homozygosity increased by 13% due to the loss of some genotypes in the population. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of MARS in increasing the frequency of favorable alleles for tolerance to drought without disrupting the level of resistance to Striga in a bi-parental population targeted as a source of improved maize inbred lines.
546 _aText in English
650 7 _aMaize
_gAGROVOC
_2
_91173
650 7 _96302
_aCrossbreeding
_2AGROVOC
650 7 _92091
_aGenetic gain
_2AGROVOC
651 7 _94388
_aWest Africa
_2AGROVOC
700 1 _91818
_aMenkir, A.
700 1 _94009
_aMeseka, S.
700 1 _94847
_aUnachukwu, N.
700 1 _92298
_aAdo, S.
700 1 _94751
_aOlarewaju, J.D.
700 1 _94752
_aAba, D.A.
700 1 _9912
_aHearne, S.
_gGenetic Resources Program
_8INT3287
700 1 _aCrossa, J.
_gGenetic Resources Program
_8CCJL01
_959
700 1 _94750
_aGedil, M.
773 0 _gno. 8:841
_tFrontiers in Plant Science
_wu56875
856 4 _yOpen Access through DSpace
_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/19240
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