Gki. Yokomizo et Na. Vello, Genotypic determination coefficient and genetic diversity at topcrosses between food type and grain type soybean, PESQ AGROP, 35(11), 2000, pp. 2223-2228
The estimates of the heritability coefficient are necessary for the choice
of an efficient strategy of selection. When the treatments are considered f
ixed, the heritability is called genotypic determination coefficient. In th
e present work the genotypic determination coefficient and the genetic dive
rsity to distinguish the differences between genetic contribution of exotic
parentals from type food soybean with great seeds and small seeds in topcr
osses with two adopted type grain parentals and the interactions with the e
nvironment were studied. The results of genotypic determination for the top
cross averages was 90.51% for number of days for maturity(NDM); 93.92% for
height of the plant at maturity (APM); 79.52% for lodging (AC); 91.37% for
agronomic value (VA); 95.55% for one hundred seed weight (PCS); 57.57% for
seed yield (PG) and 91.18% for pod width by visual score (LVV), that agree
with the values found in literature. In relation to the estimates of geneti
c diversity, that represent the availability of genetic differences for sel
ection, the characters NDM, APM and AC, showed higher values in the small s
eed of exotic parental topcrosses and for VA, PCS, PG and LVV in the great
seeds of exotic parental topcrosses.