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Developing a Knowledge Center for Water and Nutrient Management for the Nursery and Greenhouse

Lea-Cox, J., Ross, D., Bilderback, T., Yeager, T., and Harris, J. R. HortScience 42(4):898. 2007.

26 sibling families was constructed for the study of variation and inheritance of vegetative and reproductive traits in black raspberry. Sibling families of one to eight plants were planted at the Oregon State Univ. Lewis Brown Farm in Corvallis, and were arranged as a randomized complete-block design with four blocks. Phenological development and vegetative measurements were recorded for each plant in 2005 and 2006. In addition, 25 berry samples of ripe fruit were collected from each plant, and pooled within replications by family, to study variation in fruit chemistry properties including pH, titratable acids, soluble solids, anthocyanin profiles, and total anthocyanins. Although there were many striking similarities, strong trends in phenotype based on pedigree were observed for most traits indicating a strong genetic component. Estimates of heritability as well as General Combining Ability (GCA) and Specific Combining Ability (SCA) will be presented.


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Author(s): John D. Lea-Cox, David S. Ross, Theodore E. Bilderback, Thomas Yeager, J. Roger Harris, Chuanxue Hong, William Bauerle, Susan Day, Andrew G. Ristvey, John Ruter, Richard C. Beeson, Jr., Cindy Zhao

Section: Water Management and Irrigation