Abstract
This study was performed to assess superior potato clones for agronomic traits and water deficit stress tolerance in laboratory and greenhouse settings over 3 years (2016–2018). Four cultivars, ‘Satina,’ ‘Caesar,’ Savalan,’ and ‘Agria’ were used as parents and crossed by mutual hybridization based on a diallel cross using the Griffing III method. Of 279 successful crosses, 7,980 true potato seeds from 12 breeding populations were obtained, from which 2,313 seeds germinated and 244 hybrids were selected. The selected hybrids were cultured in triplicate in a splitplot based on a randomized complete block design. The main factor consisted of three levels of irrigation (100%, 80%, and 60% of available water) and a subfactor of 12 populations (♀‘Agria’ × ‘Satina’♂, ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Caesar’♂, ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Savalan’♂, ♀‘Satina’ × ‘Agria’♂, ♀‘Satina’ × ‘Caesar’♂, ♀‘Satina’ × ‘Savalan’♂, ♀‘Caesar’ × ‘Satina’♂, ♀‘Caesar’ × ‘Agria’♂, ♀‘Caesar’ × ‘Savalan’♂, ♀‘Savalan’ × ‘Satina’♂, ♀‘Savalan’ × ‘Agria’♂, and ♀‘Savalan’ × ‘Caesar’♂). In all three environmental conditions, the highest tuber yield and tuber weight per plant were related to ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Caesar’♂. The most general combining ability that produced positive and significant tuber yield in mild and severe stress conditions was in ‘Agria’ and ‘Caesar’ cultivars. Therefore, these cultivars can easily transfer these traits to offspring and increase the expression of these traits. The specific combining ability between potato cultivars had positive and significant effects on tuber yield under the growth conditions tested. These crosses can be used for the production of drought resistant potato clones.
Highlights
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important food crop produced after wheat, rice, and corn
The highest tuber yields were observed in normal growth conditions (100% available water), in clones related to crosses of ♀‘Satina’ × ‘Agria’♂, ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Caesar’♂, ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Savalan’♂, ♀‘Satina’ × ‘Agria’♂, ♀‘Caesar’ × ‘Agria’♂, ♀‘Caesar’ × ‘Savalan’♂, ♀‘Savalan’ × ‘Satina’♂, ♀‘Savalan’ × ‘Agria’♂, and ♀‘Savalan’ × ‘Caesar’♂
In mild stress conditions, (80% of available water) clones related to ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Caesar’♂ and ♀‘Caesar’ × ‘Savalan’♂ produced the highest tuber yields, and in severe stress conditions (60% available water), clones related to ♀‘Agria’ × ‘Caesar’♂ produced the most tubers compared to the other clones tested
Summary
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important food crop produced after wheat, rice, and corn. Little progress in the selection for tuber yield has encouraged breeders to focus on the selection of secondary traits (Landjeva et al, 2008) that have high heritability and are highly correlated with tuber yield (Sadeghi, 2014). Hassanpanah et al (2016) conducted hybridization of potato cultivars with a diallel cross using the Griffing III method and selected 397045-13, 397031-16, and 3970676 as a promising clones. These clones had uniform tubers, yellow to dark yellow skin color, yellow to light yellow flesh color, round and oval round tubers, shallow to medium eye depth, late maturity, and are used for the consumption chips and frying
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