The aims of this study were to estimate the genetic parameters for 59 half-sib progenies of maté under runing for formation, and to evaluate the ecophysiological properties for four progenies (P15, P18, P41 e 47) and two controls (P61 and P62), components of one maté breeding experiment combining rovenances and progenies, established in Erechim, RS. The ecophysiological properties (stomatal onductance (gs) - mol m-2s-1, net photosynthesis (A) - μmol CO2 m-2s-1, and transpiration (E) -mmol H2O - s-1) were measured during one year in five epochs (from September 2002 to August 2003). The variance omponents, genetic and phenotypic parameters and genetic values (for data of foliar mass collected in runing of formation) were obtained using a... |