Significant progressive heterobeltiosis in banana crossbreeding

BMC Plant Biology

Table 3 Pearson’s correlation coefficients and significance of correlation (P ≤ 0.05) between grandparent heterobeltiosis of NARITA hybrids for bunch weight, stature, variance for bunch weight and genetic distances between parents and grandparents, bunch weight, plant stature and yield

	GD parents	GD NARITA: GP	Bunch weight	Plant stature	Yield	HGP. Bunch weight
HGP. Bunch weight	0.39 P = 0.036	−0.18 P = 0.358	0.70 P < 0.001	0.38 P = 0.033	0.59 P < 0.001	–
HGP. Stature	−0.60 P < 0.001	0.12 P = 0.539	0.24 P = 0.188	0.12 P = 0.511	0.33 P = 0.068	−0.28 P = 0.131
Variance for Bunch weight	−0.10 P = 0.5	0.16 P = 0.40	- -	- -	- -	- -

HGP=Heterobeltiosis with grandparent (female); GD parents = Genetic distance between NARITA parents; GD NARITA: GP = Genetic distance between NARITA cultivar and grandparent (female)

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