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CROP BREEDING & GENETICS

Analysis of Inbreeding Depression in Eight S₁ Cassava Families

^a Univ. Nacional de Colombia, carrera 32, Chapinero vía Candelaria, Palmira, Colombia
^b International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Apartado Aéreo 6713, Cali. Colombia

^* Corresponding author (j.c.perez{at}cgiar.org).

Inbreeding offers numerous advantages but also presents some problems for the genetic improvement of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). One of the concerns is that inbreeding depression (ID) may be too drastic for (even partially) inbred materials to survive. A large experiment was conducted to quantify ID in cassava. S₁ families from eight elite cultivars, each represented mostly by over 90 cloned genotypes, were produced and evaluated in a replicated trial at one location. The results from this evaluation allowed measurement of ID levels for key traits such as fresh root yield (63.9%), fresh foliage yield (37.9%), harvest index (26.5%), plant height (10.1%), and dry matter content in the roots (5.3%). Results also indicated (as expected) that ID, for a given trait, was not uniform among the eight families evaluated. For reasons provided in the article, the ID levels measured in this study may have been overestimated. Compared with the first experiences introducing inbreeding in temperate and tropical maize (Zea mays L.), we concluded that the use of homozygous progenitors in future cassava genetic enhancement is feasible. The average ID and frequency distributions within S₁ families for different traits correlated well with the relative importance of nonadditive genetic effects controlling their inheritance as reported in the literature.

Abbreviations: ID, inbreeding depression