Combining ability and gene action studies for drought tolerance in tomato

Subject Areas : Stress Physiology

Maryam Noori ¹ , Alireza Motallebi Azar ² , Jaber Panahandeh ³ , Mehdi Saidi ⁴ , Ali Akbar Asadi ⁵ , Davoud ZareHaghi ⁶ , Shahnaz Fathi ⁷

1 - Former Ph.D. Student, Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Iran
2 - Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Postal code
3 - Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz,
4 - Ilam University, College of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture
5 - Crop and Horticultural Science Research Department, Zanjan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Educational Center (AREOO), Zanjan, Iran.
6 - Associate Professor, Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Iran
7 - AssistantProfessorUniversity, ShahidBakeriHighEducationCenterofMiandoab,Iran

Received: 2023-01-27 Accepted : 2024-03-18 Published : 2024-04-21

Keywords: combing ability, drought stress, gen action, line × tester, peroxidase ,

Abstract :

Physiological traits of tomato including its resistance to stresses are a main breeding goal in producing new cultivars. This study reports on a combining ability analysis investigating the variance of general and specified combing abilities for some important physiological characteristics as a whole as well as their effects for individual parents and hybrids of 19 tomato genotypes of tomato under drought stress. Three commercial innate lines and four analyzers were used in a line-to-tester crossing plan at Ilam University, Iran. There was a significant difference between genotypes (parents and crosses) in all characteristics at three levels of stress. Evaluating the impacts of common combining capacity analyzers and lines showed that neither a single line nor an analyzer was a commendable common combiner for all of the characteristics examined at all three push levels. Estimation of the effects of specific combining ability indicated that for each specific physiological trait, a specific hybrid showed the highest effect at all three stress levels. In all of the traits under study, specific combining ability variance had a higher estimation than general combining ability variance, and the genetic variance ratio of additive variance to non-additive variance was smaller than one, indicating that non-additive gene action predominated in the inheritance of all of the characteristics in the three levels of stress. The degree of dominance under three levels of stress was higher than one for all attributes except total soluble solids, and it seems that dominance in the genetic locations controlling these traits is superseded.

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