ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA ›› 2020, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (S1): 56-62. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20191611

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Improvement Effects of Different Donor and Back-cross Times on Combining Ability and Heterosis of Inbred Lines in Maize

ZHAO Changyun1,2, SHI Haichun1, XIA Wei2, CAI Lin2, YANG Shu1, YU Xuejie1, KE Yongpei1,2   

  1. 1. College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang 611130, China;
    2. Sichuan Zhenghong Bio Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610213, China
  • Received:2020-08-02 Published:2020-12-28

Abstract: Studying the improvements of different donors and different back-cross times plays an important role in maize back-cross breeding. 36 back-cross improved lines were obtained by backcrossing 0-5 times and selfing 8-3 times,using maize inbred lines K11 and K62 as recurrent parents and three inbred lines as donor parents respectively. The 3×38 incomplete two-row hybrid model was used to analyze the combining ability and heterosis performance of main traits in back-cross improved lines.Donors A3 and B1 performed better than the other 4 donor parents on improving GCA,SCA and heterosis of yield,indicating that different donors presented different effects on improving the combining ability of different traits;In terms of the back-cross time,the improvement of 0-5 back-crosses on the GCA and SCA of yield was not obvious,0 and 1 back-cross performed better on improving the heterosis of yield.Choosing an appropriate donor parent was of vital importance when using back-cross to improve the quality of maize inbred lines,and the back-cross time should not exceed twice in back-cross breeding process;The GCA of yield of 10 improved lines,such as A3-1 and B1-1,were significantly higher than corresponding recurrent parents,which presented excellent potential of high-yield breeding.

Key words: Mazie, Inbred line, Back-cross, Combining ability, Heterosis

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ZHAO Changyun, SHI Haichun, XIA Wei, CAI Lin, YANG Shu, YU Xuejie, KE Yongpei. Improvement Effects of Different Donor and Back-cross Times on Combining Ability and Heterosis of Inbred Lines in Maize[J]. ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA, 2020, 35(S1): 56-62. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20191611.

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