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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022)

Vegetable section

Heterotic groups of onions (Allium cepa L.) for the development of low-pungency hybrids

https://doi.org/10.17584/rcch.2022v16i1.13584

Published 2022-01-01

  • Fátima Rosangela de Souza Saraiva
    • ,
  • Rita Carolina de Melo
    • ,
  • Paulo Henrique Cerutti
    • ,
  • Jefferson Luís Meirelles Coimbra
    • ,
  • Daniel Pedrosa Alves
    • ,
  • Altamir Frederico Guidolin

Fátima Rosangela de Souza Saraiva
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Lages

Rita Carolina de Melo
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Lages

Paulo Henrique Cerutti
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Lages

Jefferson Luís Meirelles Coimbra
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Lages

Daniel Pedrosa Alves
Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina (EPAGRI), Ituporanga

Altamir Frederico Guidolin
Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Lages

Abstract

The growing demand for low-pungency cultivars onion has opened new market niches. The objective of this study was to characterize heterotic onion groups to develop low-pungency hybrid cultivars. A field experiment with a randomized block design and two factors (genotype and fertilization) arranged in split plots was carried out in Ituporanga-SC (Brazil), in 2019. The plots corresponded to two fertilization levels (with and without sulfur), and the subplots corresponded to 26 onion genotypes, where the germplasm was derived from different (male-sterile-LA and maintainer-LB) lines, advanced populations and cultivars. The bulbs were evaluated for the following traits: pyruvic acid (indicator of pungency), sulfur content and bulb yield. The genotype performance differed according to the fertilization level. In the sulfur-free treatments, four heterotic groups were identified. The genetic variation in the crosses LA11 × LB24 and LA15 × LB19 could be exploited for negative selection for pungency and positive selection for bulb yield.

Keywords

Bulb yield, Ideotype, Multivariate analysis, Pyruvic acid content, Standardized canonical coefficient

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