Family Selection as a Strategy for Stem Borer (<i>Eldana Saccharina</i> Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Resistance Breeding in South Africa — Oak Academic Publishing
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Family Selection as a Strategy for Stem Borer (<i>Eldana Saccharina</i> Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Resistance Breeding in South Africa
South African Sugarcane Research Institute, Durban, RSA
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University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, RSA
1 South African Sugarcane Research Institute, Durban, RSA
2 University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, RSA
Eldana saccharina is the most damaging stem borer of sugarcane in South Africa causing US$90 million losses of revenue annually. The breeding strategy at the South African Sugarcane Research Institute is based on evaluating parents for breeding values using progeny data derived from family plots and selecting parents with high breeding values for crossing. Family selection entails selecting whole populations of progenies based on family mean. The objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of family selection to eldana resistance breeding. Data were collected from stage 1 (seedlings stage) trials. In each plot, stalks were examined for eldana entry and exit holes and stalks with borings were counted. The number of bored stalks was expressed as a percent of total stalks and subjected to analysis of variance. The family broad sense heritabilities ranged from 0.51 - 0.56 compared with 0.17 for Individual Genotype Selection (IGS). Predicted family selection gains ranged from 20% to 69% compared with 18% for IGS indicating the value of family selection. Female parental effects F-values (1.63 - 2.01) were significant ( P = 0.0017 - 0.0041) compared with non-significant male F-values (1.33 - 1.41) and ( P = 0.088 - 0.1464) suggesting maternal effects. Crossing parents with higher resistance such as 96M0058 × 94M0017, 87M0965 × 98G1166 and 97M0653 × 94M0017 produced significantly ( P < 0.05) fewer bored stalks compared with those showing lower resistance (96H0590 × 95H0167, 94F2694 × 86F3326 and 76L1295 × 91L1492) suggesting additive genetic effects and that recurrent selection will be an effective breeding method.
KeywordsBest Linear Unbiased PredictorsPredicted Selection GainsBroad Sense Heritability
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