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GENETIC STUDY OF BACTERIAL BLIGHT RESISTANCE IN COTTON (Gossypium hirsutam L.)
GENETIC STUDY OF BACTERIAL BLIGHT RESISTANCE IN COTTON (Gossypium hirsutam L.)
Abstract:
The study was carried out to investigate the nature and mode of inheritance of bacterial blight resistance in cotton; to examine environmental variation, if any, for resistance to bacterial blight and the relationship between resistance at the cotyledon stage with that at the true-leaf stage. The variety S295 was crossed with seven other varieties: TX-CDP37HH-1-83, TAMCOT SP21S, TAMCOT-CAMD-E; SAMCOT-9, SAMCOT-10, SAMCOT-6 and SAMCOT- 8. The parents and their crosses were wound-inoculated in the field at three locations and in the screenhouse with separate bacterial suspensions of isolates 1, 2 and a 1:1 mixture of isolates 1 and 2. Disease reaction was evaluated on a scale of 1-10. Disease grades frequency , distributions indicated a single gene with complete dominance for resistance to the two isolates. The analysis of variance indicated highly significant differences among populations and locations. The interaction between populations x locations was also significant. The significance of the interactions between isolates x locations and populations x isolates x locations, indicated that for future screening and testing, materials should be evaluated across several environments and with different isolates. The-‘ correlation between cotyledon and true-leaf disease grades and phenotypic ratios indicated that resistance was controlled by the same genetic mechanism at both plant stages
GENETIC STUDY OF BACTERIAL BLIGHT RESISTANCE IN COTTON (Gossypium hirsutam L.)