Combining ability of banana triploid hybrid progenitors and genomic prediction of cross performance for agro-morphological traits.

ABSTRACT: Breeding disease-resistant cultivars that meet commercial criteria is essential to sustain banana production threatened by major diseases. Edible bananas are seedless triploid hybrids that represent end-breeding products. Hence, the crucial step in banana breeding is to improve and combine the parents. Currently, little information is available on parental combining abilities and on the inheritance of major traits to effectively guide banana breeding strategies. In this study, a breeding population of 2,723 triploid individuals resulting from multiparental diploid-tetraploid crosses was characterized during three crop cycles for 23 traits relating to plant and fruit architecture and bunch yield components. The phenotypic variance was partitioned between non-genetic and genetic effects, the

SUBMITTER: Toniutti L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12341918 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature