Relationships among oil content, protein content and seed size in soybeans

During 1995/96 and 1996/97, experiments were carried out at Londrina State University, aiming at quantifying the oil and protein contents in two groups of soybean genotypes; estimating the phenotypic, genotypic and environmental correlations existent among oil, protein content and seed size, and identifying genotypes for direct human consumption with high protein content. The evaluated characters were Weight of a Hundred Seeds (WHS), expressed in grams/100 seeds, Oil Content (OC) and Protein Content (PC), expressed in %. In the experiment carried out in the field, OC ranged from 12 to 20.37 % and PC from 35.66 to 41.75% while in the experiment carried out in the greenhouse OC ranged from 12.26 to 21.79 % and PC from 32.95 to 41.56 % . The correlations between oil and protein were negative and significant. The relationship among WHS with OC and PC was low and higly affected by the time effect. Due to their high protein content and stability to oil and protein contents, there were distinction among the treatments carried out in the field (GA23 and GA20), and those carried out in the greenhouse (PI408251, Waseda, B6F4 (L-3 less), PI423909 and Tambagura).

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Main Authors: Marega Filho,Mario, Destro,Deonisio, Miranda,Lilian Azevedo, Spinosa,Wilma Aparecida, Carrão-Panizzi,Mercedes Concórdia, Montalván,Ricardo
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar 2001
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132001000100004
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