Adriane Leite do Amaral

Herdabilidade para os caracteres ciclo vegetativo e estatura de planta em aveia

Eight crosses among oat lines were evaluated aiming to estimate heritability and to verify the effect of selection for plant height and heading date. Four F2 panicles from each cross were harvested in 1993. Each one generated one line of spaced plants in the field in the following year. The F3 plants were individually evaluated and separated in classes based on mean population and standard deviation. The same traits were evaluated in 1995 in plots representing the different classes. Heritability was estimated by parent x offspring regression method. Difference among classes was an indicator of selection efficiency. Heritability estimates varied from -0,73 to 0,84 for plant height and from 0,25 to 1,05 for heading date. Difference among classes was generally associated with high values of heritability. The heritability of the traits was high, indicating feasibility of selection in segregant generations. The conversion of data in standard deviation units allowed a reduction of genotype x environment interaction, leading to more precise estimates.

Estimativa da herdabilidade para os caracteres adaptativos ciclo e estatura de planta em aveia

Field experiments were conducted in 1993 and 1994 in Eldorado do Sul, RS aiming to increment the efficiency of artificial selection in oat for the adaptative traits heading date and plantheight. The heritability (h2) was estimated for 19 segregating populations conducted by the pedigree method and using linear regression as proposed by LUSH (1940). Measurements were taken weekly for heading date from 10 plants in each F3 segregant population during five subsequent weeks in 1993. Plant height was mesured 15 days after anthesis. In 1994, the F4 populations were measured for plant height and heading date. Different h2 values were obtained for each trait from the different segregating populations. The heritability values were from 0.19 to 0.59 for heading date and from 0.43 to 0.92 for plant height. The high h2 estimates as obtained for these two adaptative traits indicate that artificial selection can be succefully done in early generations.

Avaliação de genótipos de trigo hexaplóide quanto a tolerância a toxicidade do alumínio

Aiming to test and improve lhe method of evaluation of hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to aluminum toxic levels in nutritive solution. Five genotypes with known reaction to toxic aluminum (Al+++) were tested in nutritivo soluction in three different Al+++ concentrations (4, 6 e l0ppm), in two experiments. The results allowed the equipament ajustment, the choice of best evaluation method to select tolerant wheat genotypes to toxic Al+++ concentrations.