Combining ability analysis of Cucurbita moschata D. in Cote d'Ivoire and classification of promising lines based on their gca effects.

ABSTRACT: Cucurbita moschata varieties grown in Africa have very low yield. They have been neglected, and totally ignored in agricultural research programs. However, interest in their fruits, seeds, flowers and leaves is growing nowadays due to their nutritional and medicinal potentials. That growing interest has prompted plant breeders and agronomists to develop research programs for their improvement. A complete diallel cross analysis of four parental lines, Long, Zouan-H, Oval, and Soubre and their twelve F1 hybrids, was carried out in a farming environment at the University Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The four parental lines and the F1 hybrids were evaluated for their general performances, combining abilities, potency ratio and heterosis effects. The investigated traits included pla

SUBMITTER: Kouago BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11340976 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature