Journal
GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE
Volume 65, Issue 4, Pages 398-409Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2494.2010.00759.x
Keywords
development; glume length; inflorescence characters; Lolium perenne
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- Teagasc Walsh Fellowship
- Irish Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- Teagasc
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A sufficient database of seed yield components is the prerequisite to predict which component contributes most to the seed yield complex and to dissect the biology of the complex quantitative trait seed yield. Phenotypic variation of eleven vegetative and reproductive traits was characterized for 2481 individuals from fifty Lolium perenne L. (perennial ryegrass) ecotypes and cultivars. Considerable levels of among- and within-population variation were found across several inflorescence characters. Principal component and canonical variate analysis separated ecotypes from cultivars, and cultivars generally had later dates of ear emergence, better spring and summer growth, longer rachis length and more spikelets per spike than ecotypes. Strong positive relationships were seen between inflorescence characters using both correlation and regression analyses. The strong relationship between rachis length and other inflorescence characters suggested that rachis length could be used as a performance predictor for several other characters of the spike. This phenotypic study has helped to determine basic patterns of morphological diversity and correlations between characters. It is discussed in which way further developmental genetic studies can be directed.
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