Combining ability for femaleness and yield in single and 3-way crosses of pickling cucumbers intended for once-over harvest |
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| Authors: | M Tasdighi L R Baker |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, 48824 East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
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| Abstract: | Summary Single and 3-way cross hybrids derived from 13 parental lines of pickling cucumber were used to estimate general and specific combining ability for femaleness and yield. Parental lines  551F , 368G, 581H, and 5802A exhibited the highest general combining ability effects in both single and 3-way crosses for total yield and marketable yield. Additive effects of genes were found to be relatively more important than nonadditive effects for both femaleness and yield. Cucumber breeders might develop high yielding cultivars based on high general combining ability for yield in parental arrays; moreover, the general performance of the parental lines in single crosses could be used to predict high yielding 3-way hybrid crosses. |
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| Keywords: | Cucumis sativus pickling cucumber vegetable breeding mechanical harvest femaleness |
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