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Assessing genetic variability for Fusarium resistance in three asparagus populations with an in vitro assay

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An in vitro test was used to evaluate populations of one commercial cultivar and two land races of asparagus for resistance to Fusarium moniliforme. Seedlings of sixty-nine half-sib families (HSF) from each land race and 60 HSF from the cultivar were inoculated with a 0.5 ml suspension of 107 conidia/ml and visually scored 30 days later for percentage of affected root tissue. Genetic parameters were estimated and expected gains were calculated according to two selection methods, individual in both sexes and combined within and between HSF. Significant genetic variation was detected in the three populations; however, a greater progress in breeding is expected from the land races populations because the estimations of the additive variance were rather similar (221.86 ± 111.55 and 325.56 ± 128.27) and higher than for the cultivar (86.72 ± 78.38).

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    Sergio L. Lassaga, Elsa L. Camadro & Francisco J. Babinec

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Lassaga, S.L., Camadro, E.L. & Babinec, F.J. Assessing genetic variability for Fusarium resistance in three asparagus populations with an in vitro assay. Euphytica 103, 131–136 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018335729277

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