The 2012 RUFORUM Biennial Conference is the third in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. The third Biennial Conference was attended by 657 participants.This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme of Crop Improvement
Inheritance of Tolerance to Intermittent Drought from Selected Potato (Solanum Tuberosum) Cultivars in South Western Uganda
Abstract:
The study objective of this study is to characterise new potato
clones for drought tolerance under Ugandan conditions. Study
genotypes were subjected to three water stress levels and also
crossed with susceptible, locally adopted varieties to estimate
the combining ability of the tolerant genotypes. Results for yield
and for indicators of drought tolerance showed greater tolerance
to drought in the new clones than in the local varieties. Four of
the promising clones were crossed with three of the varieties
susceptible to drought to determine their combining ability for
yield and drought related traits, and to generate segregating
materials for further evaluation.
L’objectif de cette étude est de caractériser les nouveaux clones
de pommes de terre pour la tolérance à la sécheresse dans
des conditions ougandaises. Les génotypes de l’étude ont été
soumis à trois niveaux de stress hydrique et aussi croisés avec
des variétés sensibles, adoptés localement pour estimer
l’aptitude de combinaison des génotypes tolérants. Les résultats
pour le rendement et pour les indicateurs de la tolérance à la
sécheresse ont montré une plus grande tolérance à la
sécheresse dans les nouveaux clones que dans les variétés
locales. Quatre des clones prometteurs ont été croisés avec
trois des variétés sensibles à la sécheresse afin de déterminer
leur aptitude à la combinaison des caractères de rendement et
ceux se rapportant à la sécheresse, et de générer des matériaux
compartimentés pour une évaluation ultérieure.
Language:
English
Extended abstracts submitted under Crop Improvement
Date of publication:
2012
Country:
Region Focus:
East Africa
Collection:
RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Licence conditions:
Open Access
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Form:
Printed resource
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