Selection in energy cane families

The objective of this study was to identify superior parents for crosses and the best families to breed new clones of energy cane. The best-performing parents were RB867515, RB93509, KRAKATAU, IM76-228, IM76-229, and US85-1008. The heritability (0.59 – 0.85)and accuracy values (0.76 – 0.92) for the...

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Main Authors: Luís Cláudio Inácio da Silveira, Bruno Portela Brasileiro, Volmir Kist, Heroldo Weber, Edelclaiton Daros, Luiz Alexandre Peternelli, Márcio Henrique Pereira Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding 2016-11-01
Series:Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
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Online Access:http://www.sbmp.org.br/cbab/siscbab/uploads/c8eb9792-d2b0-23ce.pdf