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Inheritance of Qualitative Morphological Traits and Variation of Quantitative Agronomic Traits of Enset (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Clones Obtained From Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia
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: Received: 22 May 2021 / Approved: 25 May 2021 / Online: 25 May 2021 (10:34:35 CEST)
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Gessese, M.K.; Bosha, A. Inheritance of Qualitative Morphological Traits and Variation of Quantitative Agronomic Traits of Enset (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Clones Obtained From Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Preprints2021, 2021050606. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0606.v1
Gessese, M.K.; Bosha, A. Inheritance of Qualitative Morphological Traits and Variation of Quantitative Agronomic Traits of Enset (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Clones Obtained From Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Preprints 2021, 2021050606. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0606.v1
Gessese, M.K.; Bosha, A. Inheritance of Qualitative Morphological Traits and Variation of Quantitative Agronomic Traits of Enset (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Clones Obtained From Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Preprints2021, 2021050606. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0606.v1
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Gessese, M.K., & Bosha, A. (2021). Inheritance of Qualitative Morphological Traits and Variation of Quantitative Agronomic Traits of Enset (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Clones Obtained From Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0606.v1
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Gessese, M.K. and Abraham Bosha. 2021 "Inheritance of Qualitative Morphological Traits and Variation of Quantitative Agronomic Traits of Enset (Ensete Ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) Clones Obtained From Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0606.v1
Abstract
The present cultivated enset clonal landraces in Ethiopia originated from few wild progenitors. However, enset has a mixed mode of reproduction in which, the wild enset reproduces sexually through seeds, while cultivated enset is generally propagated vegetatively. The objective of this study was to understand the genetic structures of enset cultivars and estimate their genetic variability by evaluating the morphological data generated from progenies of cultivated and wild enset clones. Hence, seeds collected from six cultivated and four wild enset genotypes were used for this study. Data on four qualitative and six quantitative morphological traits were recorded from the progenies of the 10 enset genotypes. Progenies of seven enset genotypes segregated with 3:1 genetic ratio while progenies of the remaining genotypes segregated differently for the qualitative traits considered. With regard to the quantitative traits, the progenies of the 10 enset genotypes differed significantly for five of the six traits except pseudostem length. Generally the cultivated clones performed better than the wild types. This study demonstrated the possibility of creating genetic variation through selfing of the existing clones of enset for traits of interest and makes improvements either through selection or crossing the elite types to develop novel cultivar
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