Heterotic potential and combining ability of Coffea arabica L.

ABSTRACT: The use of hybrid vigor or heterosis in Coffea arabica L. cultivation has gradually been commercially explored worldwide since research has evolved in understanding this phenomenon and the vegetative propagation techniques or male-sterility making its use viable. Additionally, coffee producers adopting this technology have continuously increased. Therefore, we studied the existence and magnitude of heterosis and estimate the combining ability of parents in bi-parental crosses. The experiment was installed in 2019 using a randomized block design with three replications, with the experimental plot consisting of six plants. The experimental treatments consisted of 90 hybrids and 34 parental lines in which the grain yield in bags of processed coffee per hectare was evaluated according to the c

SUBMITTER: Andrade VT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889267 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature