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Is there a possibility to improve a developed hybrid? A current demand on papaya (Carica papaya L.)

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The development of hybrid cultivars is one of the most important contributions of a breeding program. A high allelic fixation of the parent lines is essential to guarantee the uniformity of developed hybrids. In this sense, papaya segregation has been observed in the parent lines, impacting the pattern of the hybrids obtained and, consequently, their commercialization. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the JS-12, Sekati, and SS-72/12 genotypes, which are parents of important papaya hybrids, to identify possible segregations and proceed with the generation progress through self-fertilization of selected genotypes for agronomic traits of interest. A mass selection was carried out, selecting 400 plants based on the phenotype, being: 100 plants from the Sekati parent, 100 from the SS-72/12 parent, and 200 plants from the JS-12 parent, of which 100 plants with smaller fruits (JS12-P) and 100 plants with larger fruits (JS12-G). These plants were agronomically evaluated for 15 traits in three evaluation periods. Descriptive statistics of the observations, diversity analysis, as well as the combined selection index and direct selection were performed. Through the descriptive and phenotypic variability analysis, it was possible to verify the existence of variability in the parents, enabling the selection of 80 genotypes, 72 of which were selected via combined selection and eight by direct selection. Given the existence of parents' segregation, the extreme importance of selecting lines with different patterns to be explored in the papaya breeding program is emphasized to purify the parents and adjust the hybrids to meet the consumer market's demand.

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Acknowledgements

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. We also thank the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), the Council National Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for the scholarship granting and project financing, and Caliman Agrícola S/A for logistical support.

Funding

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. We also thank the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), the Council National Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for the scholarship granting and project financing, and Caliman Agrícola S/A for logistical support.

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    Adriana Azevedo Vimercati Pirovani, Helaine Christine Cancela Ramos, Renato Santa-Catarina, Daniel Pereira Miranda, Alex Souza Rodrigues, Julio Cesar Fiorio Vettorazzi, Izaias Rodrigues da Silva Júnior, Messias Gonzaga Pereira & Alexandre Pio Viana

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AAVP: Evaluation the experiments, analysis of the results and wrote the manuscript; HCCR: supervised the project and contributed to the writing of the manuscript; RS-C: contributed to the design and implementation of the research, helped in planting and evaluating the experiment and to the analysis of the results and to the writing of the manuscript; DPM: helped in planting and evaluating the experiment; ASR: helped in planting and evaluating the experiment; JCFV: helped in planting, evaluating the experiment and contributed to the final version of the manuscript; IRSJ: helped in planting and evaluating the experiment; MGP: supervised the project and contributed to the final version of the manuscript; APV: contributed to the final version of the manuscript.

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Pirovani, A.A.V., Ramos, H.C.C., Santa-Catarina, R. et al. Is there a possibility to improve a developed hybrid? A current demand on papaya (Carica papaya L.). Euphytica 218, 64 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-022-03014-y

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