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Provedor de dados: 	52	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Genetic distance and its association with heterosis in cacao	
Autores: 	Dias,Luiz Antônio dos Santos; Marita,Jane; Cruz,Cosme Damião; Barros,Everaldo Gonçalves de; Salomão,Tânia Maria Fernandes.	
Data: 	2003-06-01	
Ano: 	2003	
Palavras-chave: 	Genetic distances; Heterosis; Performance data; RAPD data; Theobroma cacao L.	
Resumo: 	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 in a diallel, during five years, for five yield components. A total of 130 RAPD bands were scored. GD and MD were used to determine the correlation between genetic distances among clones and the performance of their hybrids. The correlation between GD and MD was 0.67 (P=0.03). Both distances were related to heterotic performance of hybrids for wet seed weight/plant and wet seed weight/fruit. The average hybrid performance for the same two yield components was correlated with only MD. Hence, genetic distances measured by RAPD and yield components can be used as a guide to the choice of the superior crosses.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132003000300005	
Editor: 	Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1516-89132003000300005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology  v.46 n.3 2003	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess