Inheritance of Secondary Metabolites Associated With Cowpea Resistance to Flower Bud Thrips
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Abstract
Plant secondary metabolites are part of defense mechanism that form host plant resistance. Understanding the inheritance of secondary metabolites is preliquisite for conducting an effective plant breeding program. The objective of this study was to determine the mode of inheritance of secondary metabolites associated with resistance of cowpea to flower bud thrips. Five cowpea genotypes with varying level of resistance to flower thrips were crossed in full diallel method 1. The F2 were evaluated for secondary metabolites and flower thrips damage in field and screen house. The results confirmed genotype TVU-3804 as resistant, and TVU-9820 and TVU-201 as susceptible to flower bud thrips. Flavonoids, antioxidants, proteins and reducing sugars had significant (p < 0.001) GCA and SCA effects indicating the importance of additive and dominance effect in controlling resistance of flower bud thrips. In addition, significant reciprocal observed for crosses such as Lori Niebe × Sanzi and Sanzi × TVU-3804 for flavonoids and antioxidants is an indication that maternal effect is key in governing resistance of cowpea to thrips. The broad sense heritability was low for secondary metabolites except flavonoid which had moderate value, an indication that delaying selection to a later generation would yield better results while breeding for resistance to flower thrips based on secondary metabolites. The results of this experiment showed that it is possible to use secondary metabolites to breed for improved cowpea resistance to flower bud thrips.
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| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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