Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) exposed to salinity
T. Mahmood A B D , M. Turner A , F. L. Stoddard A C and M. A. Javed BA Plant Breeding Institute – Cobbitty, The University of Sydney, PMB 11, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia.
B Soil Salinity Research Institute, Pindi Bhattian, Punjab, Pakistan.
C Present address: School of Applied Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK.
D Corresponding author; present address: Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, John Woolley Bldg, A 20, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email: chatthat@agric.usyd.edu.au
Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 55(11) 1173-1181 https://doi.org/10.1071/AR03200
Submitted: 26 September 2003 Accepted: 12 October 2004 Published: 26 November 2004
Abstract
The release of rice cultivars with improved performance in saline environments is reliant on an understanding of the genetic control of plant and panicle characters in plants exposed to salinity. The regulation of agro-physiological characters of rice plants grown in a saline environment was thus investigated.
A complete diallel cross was prepared from 8 parental rice accessions with a range of tolerances to salinity. F1 hybrids and parents were grown in saline-sodic soil in artificially constructed salinity blocks. At maturity, the plant height, productive tiller number per plant, panicle length, primary branch number per panicle, panicle fertility, time to maturity, shoot dry weight, shoot Na, Ca, and K concentrations, and paddy yield were recorded.
Additive and dominant genetic effects contributed significantly to the total heritable variation observed for plant height, panicle length, and sodium and potassium shoot concentrations. Additive genetic effects were important for the expression of variation of productive tiller number per plant and the number of primary branches per panicle, while dominant genetic effects were important for the expression of variation of the number of days to maturity. Plant height and primary branch number per panicle are traits that may be readily improved by selection in saline environments.
Additional keywords: quantitative genetics, stress tolerance, saline-sodic soils, breeding.
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