Caracterização fenotípica, capacidade combinatória e ação gênica em genótipos de maxixe

Abstract

The gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.) is a culture of great importance of in the North and Northeast of Brazil. However, most of the Brazilian production of this vegetable is obtained without the use of genotypes and appropriate technologies. The objectives of this study were phenotypic characterization local and commercial access of gherkin in the southern region of Tocantins, assess their capacity for action and the combination of genes. The experiment was conducted in a delineation of block design with three replications. The treatments were nine genotypes of gherkin and hybrids obtained in diallel crossings according to the methodology proposed by Gardner and Eberhart, totaling forty-five treatments. Fruits were collected of home gardens in the southern region of the state of Tocantins and also two commercial crops (Feltrin® e Topseed®), subsequently were multiplied the seeds of the fruits of the municipality of Gurupi and were made crosses. Were characterized nine genotypes with selections of their vegetative and reproductive parts, also its gene action was evaluated in relation to the estimates of effects of variety and heterosis and hybrids capacity combination and average variance of the fruits were evaluated for fruit diameter (mm), fruit length (mm), average fruit weight (g) and productivity (tonha-1). The vegetative characterization of the genotypes showed a slight separation between the genotypes, mainly at the characters related to the leaf size. In the reproductive traits, however, there was no separation between genotypes and cultivars. Some characters have a stronger correlation than others, such as the commercial cultivar Topseed ®, which differs from the other cultivars in PCA of vegetative characters. In the summary analysis of variation in the characteristics of fruit diameter, fruit length, fruit weight and fruit firmness were identified significant differences, whereas the characteristic productivity hadn't significant effects on the sources of variety, average heterosis and heterosis of variety. In the estimation of the effect of variety, diameter characteristics of the fruits (36.21); fruit length (45,29) and fruit weight (32,86) MAXGU#02 genotype was higher, and the feature of fruit firmness (133,80) and productivity (15,61) was the genotype MAXGU#01. The estimation of heterosis effect of variety, the characteristics fruit diameter (47,64); fruit length (80,43), average fruit weight (40.18), fruit firmness (100,36) and productivity (2,70) highlights the MAXGU#03 genotype. In the characteristics diameter, length and average weight of the fruits, additive effects predominated in their performance "per se". For firmness of pulp and peel and productivity predominate not additive effects.