Study on the Combining Ability and Genetic Correlation
of Tassel Traits in Waxy corn
Abstract:Eight inbred lines of waxy corn according to the Griffing diallel method Ⅳwere designed experiment and 28 hybrid combination. The combining ability effect and genetic parameters of tassel length and tassel branch number were studied, and the genetic correlation between tassel traits and main qualitative Traits were also studied. The results shown as follow: (1)negative significant correlation was found between tassel branch number and amylopectin content(-0.44038*); there was very significant positive correlation between tassel length and amylopectin content(0.55459**). (2)The analysis of combining ability effect shown that N7×N23 had the highest negative value of TCA on tassel branch number, N7×N28 had the highest positive value of TCA on tassel length. (3)The generalized heritability was low both on tassel length and tassel branch number were 66.03%and 60.25%; The narrow heritability valueof tassel length was 57.87% higher than tassel branch number was 31.28%. It shown that the tassel length had better choose effect in low generation, and tassel branch number had better choose effect in late generation. (4)Moderately increase the tassel length, reduce the tassel branch number, could improve the amylopeatin content of waxy corn.
Key words:Waxy corn; Combining ability; Genetic parameters; Genetic correlation; Tassel traits
