Morphometric Analysis of Upland Rice Phenotypes in Lowland Condition
Journal Title: Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES) - Year 2017, Vol 10, Issue 4
Abstract
Knowledge about upland characters expressed in an unfavorable environment will direct to appropriate utilization of upland rice varieties (URVs) for breeding and improvement. Morphometric analysis of 55 URVs in lowland condition was done using different statistical parameters such as basic statistics (standard deviation, coefficient of variation and ANOVA), Shannon-Weaver diversity coefficient (H’), principal component analysis (PCA) and clustering analysis based on 14 characters. H’ values were ranged from 0.69 (flag leaf width, FLW) to 0.95 (grain yield, GY), indicating a medium to high diversity characters. PCA captured84.78% variation for six principal components (PC), retained using proportion of variance and eigenvalues >1.0.Grain length (GL), grain width (GW) and grain size ratio (GSR) formed PC1 and days to 50% flowering (DF), days to maturity (DM) and thousand grain weight (TGW)formed PC2. PCA found that grain attributes (GL, GW, GSR and TGW) followed by DF and DM were highly affected. Clustering analysis grouped varieties into four. The results therefore could be used especially on deciding what URV is to be utilized for any rice breeding program in lowland condition.
Authors and Affiliations
Aldrin Y. Cantila, Sailila E. Abdula, Jenalyn L. Balos
Variations of surface temperature and precipitation in gilgit-baltistan (GB), Pakistan from 1955 to 2010
This study characterizes precipitation and temperature variability for the whole region of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), covering winter dominated high mountain region. Trend analyses of the historical data for the period 1955...
Butterfly diversity varies across habitat types in Tangkoko Nature reserve North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Butterflies (Lepidoptera) are important pollinators. This study aims to analyze the diversity of butterflies in various habitat types in Tangkoko Nature Reserve (TNR) North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Butterflies were sampled i...
Effect of zinc and lead toxicity on some physiological parameters of Glycine max L.
The presence of heavy metals is counted as one of the most important environmental stresses. In this research, the effects of different treatments of two heavy metals, Lead and Zinc on the growth and rate of Chlorophyll...
Substitution analysis of adaptation using nonparametric stability estimators
One important step in the genetic analysis of adaptation is identification of the chromosomal location of the genes controlling phenotypic stability. The present investigation was therefore carried out to locate QTLs mo...
Regulatory mechanisms in the interaction between plants and pathogens - a proteomics approach
Plants respond to stresses with inductive responses. Induction responses include chemical and structural defense responses that only activate after pathogen attack. Cellular responses greatly coordinated and with identi...