Working Document Series Open Access 2010 RUF-34670

Inheritance of resistance to Fusarium root rot in three common bean genotypes

P. GibsonS.T. NkaluboP.O. OngomP. Rubaihayo

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Fusarium solani f. sp phaseoli (FSP) is an important disease in Uganda causing in some cases 100% yield losses in beans. The study established the nature of inheritance to FSP resistance in genotypes RWR 719, NABE 14 and NABE 13. A 5x5 full diallel design involving three resistant and two susceptible genotypes was used to develop F1 and F2 populations which were inoculated with FSP isolate. Crosses, GCA and SCA values were significant, suggesting importance of both additive and dominance variances but additive variance was larger. Chisquare test conformed to 2-3 gene models with dominance/ epistasis and heritability (h2NS) was estimated at 0.77.

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