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Diallel Analysis and Growth Parameters as Selection Tools for Drought Tolerance in Young Theobroma cacao Plants.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Dos Santos Emerson Alves, Almeida Alex-Alan Furtado de, Ahnert Dario, Branco Marcia Christina da Silva, Valle Raúl René, Baligar Virupax C
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to estimate the combining ability, of T. cacao genotypes preselected for drought tolerance through diallel crosses. The experiment was conducted under greenhouse conditions at the Cacao Research Center (CEPEC), Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, in a completely randomized block design, in an experimental arrangement 21 x 2 [21 complete diallel crosses and two water regimes (control and stressed)]. In the...
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