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The relationship between seed yield and associated characters in meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Joseph Lewis
Joseph Lewis
Affiliation:
Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth
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A study was made of phenotypic correlations between seed yield and some other traits of determinable value in two bred varieties of meadow fescue. Seed yield and such characters as time of flowering, plant height and dry-matter production of spaced plants in October and at the time of anthesis were found to be closely associated.

The method of path coefficient analysis was used to study the interrelationships of seed yield and its components in the causal system: fertile tiller and floret numbers, percentage fertility and thousandseed weight. This analysis corroborates the result of simple correlations in showing the importance of fertile tiller numbers and fertility as major determinants of seed yield.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , October 1966 , pp. 243 - 248
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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