Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 2119-2127.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2020.12.02

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Breeding potential analyses of 13 new inbred lines in maize

ZHAO Xingkai1(), SHI Haichun1,2, YU Xuejie1,2, YANG Shu1, ZHAO Changyun2, XIA Wei2, KE Yongpei1,2,*()   

  1. 1. College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
    2. Sichuan Zhenghong Bio Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610213, China
  • Received:2020-07-07 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2020-12-25
  • Contact: KE Yongpei

Abstract:

In order to clarify the breeding potential of new inbred lines, genetic diversities of 13 new inbred lines, eight elite inbred lines and five standard inbred lines were studied by agronomic character identification and SSR markers. 210 combinations were obtained according to Griffing method IV, and the combining ability and heterosis of yield were analyzed. The results showed that K351 and K311 were new inbred lines with good agronomic traits per se. By using genetic similarity coefficient of 0.696 as the threshold, 26 inbred lines were divided into eight groups including five common groups and three new groups by unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic means (UPGMA), in which ten new inbred lines such as K115 were divided into three new groups. Six new inbred lines including K61 had significantly (P<0.05) positive general combining ability (GCA) effect of yield, higher than that of the most of elite inbred lines. There were 18 and three combinations with yield increase over CK significantly (P<0.05) in experiment site of Shuangliu, Sichuan and Xuanwei, Yunnan, respectively, in which K61 × K143 and 21-ES ×K61 had significant (P<0.05) yield increase at both sites, with an average increase of 33.16% and 22.81%, respectively. In summary, the new inbred lines K61, K143 and K115 had the highest GCA of yield and good agronomic traits, in which K61 and K115 were novel germplasms, they were ideal parents for high-yield breeding. K311, K962 and K365 had the higher GCA of yield and good agronomic traits, which had the potential for high-yielding breeding, however, the plant height needed to be further improved as they were kind of the higher plants.

Key words: maize, inbred lines, genetic diversity, simple sequence repeats(SSR), combining ability, heterosis

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