Morphophysiological characterization of giant missionary grass accessions

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia

Cristiano Reschke Lajús¹  Simone Meredith Scheffer-basso²  Mario Miranda²  Rosiane Berenice Nicoloso Denardin²  José Francisco Montenegro Valls² 

[1] ,Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó

关键词: A. catharinensis;    dry matter production;    growth analysis;    phenology;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-35982011001100004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In this study, the phenotypic diversity of five accessions of giant missionary grass (Axonopus jesuiticus × A. scoparius) was evaluated by using morphophysiological traits. Accessions V 14337, V 14403, V 14404, V 14405 and V 14406 are hybrids derived from spontaneous crossing that occurred in Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Plants were cultivated in greenhouse and evaluated at 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 210 and 240 days of growth. Variation was observed for dry matter production, phenology and morphological traits, showing the possibility of selection. Flowering started at 210 days of growth and only in accessions V 14337 and V 14404. The Mahalanobis distance among accessions ranged from 35.64 (V 14403 and V 14405) to 183.38 (V 14337 and V 14405), and three groups were formed, based on 17 vegetative morphophysiological traits evaluated in plants with 180 days of growth: G1 (V 14403, V 14405), G2 (V 14406) and G3 (V 14337, V 14404). Group I presented the greatest dry matter production of stolon and aboveground, which were the traits with the largest relative contribution to genetic divergence, 38.67% and 38.31%, respectively. Accessions V 14403 and V 14405 are the most promising for agronomic evaluations that address their records as forage cultivars.

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