Gene action and inheritance of resistance to Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium ultimum in cotton seedlings.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poswal, Maxwell Amlai Todi
Other Authors: Bird, L. S. (degree committee member.), Frederiksen, R. A. (degree committee member.), Smith, James D. (degree committee member.), Smith, O. D. (degree committee member.)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: 1986.
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245 1 0 |a Gene action and inheritance of resistance to Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium ultimum in cotton seedlings. 
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502 |b Ph. D. in Plant Pathology  |c Texas A & M University  |d 1986 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-180). 
520 3 |a Six cotton cultivars, three multi-adversity resistant (MAR) and three non-MAR, and their 15 F₁ and 15 F₂ progenies obtained from a diallel set of crosses (no reciprocals) were used to determine the genetic system controlling traits associated with resistance to R. solani and P. ultimum. Experiments were conducted for two years in a field naturally infested with both pathogens, and in temperature controlled water bath tanks, using soil artificially inoculated with each of R. solani and P. ultimum separately at two inoculum densities. Genetic information based on the diallel analyses of Hayman, Jinks and Griffing for the data collected in the field were inconclusive. However, measures of gene action and interaction, and the inheritance of resistance to the two pathogens were obtained from the temperature tank experiments. Independent action of non-allelic genes (no epistasis) was the only genetic assumption of the diallel analysis that was not valid for all traits for both pathogens. Dominance effects (H₁ and H₂) were the most predominant in the F₁ and F₂ diallel analyses for most traits associated with resistance to both R. solani and P. ultimum. The additive effects (D) were smaller in magnitude than the dominance effects. Average degree of dominance ranged from partial to overdominance with different responses to both pathogens. The analysis of F₂ data detected a significant epistatic effects for all traits and for both pathogens. Heritabilities in the narrow sense were low, ranging from 0.0% to 20.7% for R. solani. For R. ultimum, heritabilities ranged from 0.0% to 10.2%. General combining ability effects were important for the expression of resistance to R. solani and specific combining ability effects for P. ultimum. The results indicated that resistance in cotton seedlings to both R. solani and P. ultimum was polygenically inherited and conditioned by a complex of minor genes. Extension of the genetic analysis to the F₂ provided more reliable information on the genetic system. The most important trait associated with final stand establishment of cotton seedlings in the presence of R. solani was post-emergence damping-off, explaining 92% of the variability in final stand. Pre-emergence damping-off due to P. ultimum, explained 62% of the variability in final stand. 
650 0 |a Cotton  |x Disease and pest resistance  |x Genetic aspects. 
650 0 |a Cotton  |x Seedlings. 
650 0 |a Pythium ultimum. 
650 0 |a Rhizoctonia solani. 
650 4 |a Major plant pathology. 
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700 1 |a Bird, L. S.,  |e degree committee member. 
700 1 |a El-Zik, Kamal M.,  |e degree supervisor. 
700 1 |a Frederiksen, R. A.,  |e degree committee member. 
700 1 |a Smith, James D.,  |e degree committee member. 
700 1 |a Smith, O. D.,  |e degree committee member. 
710 2 |a Texas A & M University,  |e degree granting institution. 
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