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JOURNAL OF THE DRYLANDS 3(2): 208-213, 2010
Genotypic and Phenotypic Correlations of Root Yield and other Traits of Orange-
Fleshed Sweet Potatoes [ Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]
Yohannes Gedamu1*, Getachew Belay2 and Nigussie Dechassa3
Yohannes Gedamu, Getachew Belay and Nigussie Dechassa. 2010. Genotypic and Phenotypic Correlations of
Root Yield and other Traits of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]. Journal of theDrylands 3(2): 208-213
Twelve orange-fleshed sweet potato genotypes were evaluated at four environments at Jari and Sirinka in north
and south Wollo zones, respectively, during the 2006/2007 cropping season. The objective of the study was to
estimate the phenotypic and genotypic correlations among different traits. The experiments were laid out in RCBDwith three replications. The plot size used was 4 x 3 m2 with 100 x 30 cm2 inter- and intra-row spacing. Data were
collected on 15 storage root yield and yield-related traits. Genotypic correlation analysis indicated that root
diameter, and average storage root weight were positively but non-significantly associated with total storage rootyield (0.891 and 0.614, respectively). On the contrary, root dry matter content and root length were negatively
correlated with total storage root yield (-0.833 and -0.791, respectively). On the other hand, phenotypic correlation
analysis showed highly significant association between root diameter and storage yield (0.738), and significantcorrelation between average root weight and total storage root yield (0.612). total storage root yield was also
significantly and negatively associated with root length (-0.622) and root dry matter content (-0.681) Therefore,
these yield components should receive due attention during varietal selection.
Key words: genotypic correlation, phenotypic correlation, sweet potato,
1 Department of Dryland Crops and Horticultural Sciences, Mekelle University, Ethiopia.2 Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center, Debre-Zeit, Ethiopia3 Department of Plant Sciences, Haramaya University, P.O.Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia*Corresponding author: Email: [email protected] , P.O.Box 1255, Mekelle, Ethiopia
Received July 24, 2010, Accepted November 15, 2010.
INTRODUCTION
Sweet potato [ Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.],
belongs to the Convolvulaceae family. It is grown
in tropical and sub-tropical regions under
different agro-geographic conditions, but most of it is produced on marginal soils in low-input
subsistence farming systems (Manrique and
Hermann, 2000; Gruneberg et al., 2005).Globally,
sweet potato is the seventh most important food
crop after wheat, rice, maize, potato, barley, and
cassava and fifth on the list of developing
countries’ most valuable food crops (Woolfe,
1992). It is also the second most important
tropical staple root crop, preceded only by
cassava (Gruneberg et al., 2005).
Sweet potato and other root crops are
considered by many to be inferior or “poverty
food” (Purcell et al., 1989); however, being
cultivated in more than 100 countries (Woolfe,1992), with over 135 million metric tonnes
produced annually (Purcell et al., 1989), sweet
potato is an extremely important, versatile, and
underutilized food crop in many parts of the
world including East Africa. One of the major
contributions, which sweet potatoes could make
to the health and welfare of humankind is that of
supplying carotenoid vitamin A precursors.
Vitamin A deficiency is one of the major health
problems, which some developing countries face
at the present time.
Sweet potato is cultivated in Ethiopia
mostly for human consumption and as animal
feed. It ranks third after Enset [Ensete
ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman] and potato(Solanum tuberosum L.) as the most important
root crops produced in the country. Sweet potato
was produced on 34,027 ha of land throughout the
country in 2002 cropping season; the major
producing region being SNNPR followed by
Oromia (9,558 ha) and Benishangul-Gumuz (248
ha) Regional States (CSA, 2003).
Correlations of characteristics among yield,
its components, and other economical traits is
important for making selection in breeding
program. Correlation coefficient analysis
measures the mutual relationship between various
plant characteristics and determines the
component characters on which selection can bebased for improvement in yield. Knowledge of
interrelationships between different traits is
important in breeding for direct and indirect
selection of characters that are not easily
measured and those with low heritability (Patil et
al., 1981).
Selection for storage root yield, which is a
polygenic trait, often leads to changes in other
characters. Hence knowledge of the relation that
exists between storage root yield and other
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characters and also interrelationships among
various characters is necessary to be able to
design appropriate selection criteria in sweet
potato breeding (Engida et al., 2006). Therefore,
the objective of this paper was to estimate the
phenotypic and genotypic correlations among
different traits
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The Study Area
The trial was carried out at two locations, Sirinka
and Jari. Additional environments within these
two locations were created by applying 80 kg/ha
nitrogen fertilizer to create a total of four
environment (Manrique and Hermann, 2000;
Gruneberg et al., 2005). 11 orange-fleshed sweet
potato genotypes and one standard check (Koka-
12) were used for this experiment
Experimental Design and ProceduresThe trials were laid out in randomized complete
block design (RCBD) with three replications. Plot
size was 4m x 3m with spacing of 1m x 0.3m
between and within the ridges, respectively as
recommended by Ambacha (2000). At eachlocation, the trials with and without N-application
were planted side by side.
Supplemental irrigation was applied in order
to facilitate establishment of planting materials.
Half of the N-fertilizer (80 kg/ha nitrogen) was
applied at planting as side dress and the remaining
was applied one month after planting at the two
environments. Among the four ridges only the
two central ridges (2m x 3m) were used for data
collection. Except for the differences in nitrogen
fertilization all cultural practices were the same
for all the four environments.
Data Collected15 traits were collected during the experiment.
These traits were Root length (cm); Root diameter
(cm); Plant height (cm); Internode length (cm);
Internode diameter (mm); Leaf area (cm2); Above
ground fresh biomass (t/ha); Root dry matter
content (%); Average storage root weight (g);
Marketable storage root number/plot; Marketable
storage root yield (t/ha); Unmarketable storage
root number/plot; Unmarketable storage root
yield (t/ha); Total storage root number/plot and
Total storage root yield (t/ha).
Data Analyses
Phenotypic and genotypic correlation coefficients
between the parameters were calculated from the
variance and covariance components of combined
Analysis of Variance using SPAR statistical
software. The phenotypic correlation coefficients
were tested for their significance with tabulated r-
values at g-2 degrees of freedom, where g is the
number of genotypes (Singh and Chaudhary,
2001). The genotypic correlation coefficient was
tested with the following formula forwarded by
Robertson (1959),
xyg
xy
r
g
SE
r t
where,
xygr SE =22
2
2
1
y x
g
hh
r xy
where,
rgxy = genotypic correlation coefficient
between character x and y
xygr SE : Standard error of genotypic
correlation coefficient between
character x and y2
xh : Heritability for character x
2
yh Heritability for character y
The calculated absolute t-value was tested against
the tabulated t-value at g-2 d.f. for genotypic
correlation coefficients where g is the number of
genotypes.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Correlation of Total Storage Root Yield with
other Yield Component TraitsYield, in general, is a complex polygenic trait and
difficult to improve directly. Estimating its
genotypic and phenotypic correlation coefficients
with yield related traits is important to utilize the
available variability through selection. Root
weight is of primary importance, and thus
associations with it are of particular interest
(Jones, 1970).
Genotypic CorrelationOut of 14 traits, total storage root yield had
significant genotypic correlation with only
unmarketable storage root yield (UNSRY) (Table
1). However, it had positive association with half
of the traits considered in this study and the
positive correlation was observed with most of
root related traits such as root diameter, average
root weight, marketable root number and yield,
unmarketable root number and yield as well as
total root number. The negative association was
observed between total storage root yield and
above ground plant parts and two root relatedtraits (root length and dry matter content of the
root).
As observed in Table 1, total storage root
yield (t/ha) had strong significant positive
association with unmarketable storage root yield
(t/ha). Such strong association between total andunmarketable root yield was also observed by
Tesfaye (2006).
Among non-significant positive associations,
the correlation of total storage root yield with root
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diameter, marketable storage root yield and
average storage root weight need to be mentioned
here because of their relative large magnitude of
genotypic correlation coefficients. The positive
association between total storage root yield and
root diameter was the largest among the non-
significant positive correlations. Different authors
also indicated the positive association betweenthese traits (Naskar et al, 1986; Chandria and
Tiwaria, 1987; Islam et al., 2002; Engida et al.,
2006; Tesfaye, 2006). However, most of them
identified significant positive association between
these two traits which clashed with the present
observation. The possible reason for such conflict
might be due to the use of either the standard r-
table or t-table suggested by (Robertson, 1959)
for testing the significance of the genotypic
correlation coefficients. They employed the r-
table while we used the t-table for testing
genotypic correlation coefficients. Whatever the
case may be, the result obtained indicated that
simultaneous selection of these two traits is
possible without affecting each other.
In addition, relative strong non-significant
positive association was observed between totalstorage root yield and marketable root yield
(0.651) followed by the association between total
storage root yield and average storage root weight
(0.614) (Table 1). Engida et al. (2006) and
Tesfaye (2006) obtained positive association
between total storage root yield and marketable
storage root yield which supported the present
result. Moreover, Chandria and Tiwari (1987) and
Islam et al. (2002) on sweet potato and Baye
(2002) on potato found out the positive
association between total storage root yield and
average storage root weight that was in agreementwith the present result.
As mentioned above, total storage root yield
had negative association with some root related
traits (Table 1). These associations were large in
magnitude even if they were statistically
insignificant. The largest negative association
existed between total storage root yield and dry-
matter content of the root (-0.833). It was
followed by the negative correlation between root
length and total storage root yield (-0.791). Such
negative association of dry-matter content of the
root with total storage root yield was obtained on
experiments conducted by Kamalam et al. (1977)
and Engida et al. (2006). As indicated in theprevious paragraph, their results showed highly
significant negative association while ours was
non-significant. Naskar et al. (1986) also
identified the negative association between total
storage root yield and root length on sweet potato.
Selection of genotypes for high dry-matter
content of the root and root length would result in
lower total storage root yield because of their
negative association existed between them.
Among above ground traits, the correlation
coefficient of leaf area and above ground fresh
biomass with total storage root yield was large
and negative (-0.61and-0.631, respectively).
Phenotypic Level
Table 1 also shows the phenotypic correlationcoefficients of total storage root yield with
different traits. Most of the correlation
coefficients were smaller than the corresponding
genotypic correlation coefficients. This indicated
that most of the association existed between total
storage root yield and other traits were controlled
by genetic factor. Unlike the corresponding
genotypic correlation, significant to highly
significant correlation coefficients were
calculated between total storage root yield and
other six traits. Among these four traits were
positively associated with total storage root yield.
Highly significant and positive association was
existed between total storage root yield and
unmarketable storage root yield (0.874). This trait
also showed significant positive association at
genotypic level (0.908). Similarly, total storage
root yield had highly significant positive
association with root diameter (0.738). However,
its genotypic counterpart was not significant
though the genotypic correlation coefficient was
larger than the phenotypic (Table 1). Islam et al.
(2002), Engida et al. (2006) and Tesfaye (2006),
showed in their separate experiments the presence
of significant association between total storage
root yield and root diameter at phenotypic level.
Both traits had larger genotypic correlation
coefficient than the phenotypic one indicating that
their association with total storage root yield was
controlled by genetic factors. Moreover, due to
their highly significant positive association with
total storage root yield, improvement in one of
these traits could result in the improvement of
total storage root yield in positive direction.
In addition to those highly significant
positive associations, total storage root yield also
had significant and positive association withmarketable storage root yield and average storage
root weight. The existence of significant
association between total storage root yield and
average storage root weight was confirmed by
several authors (Chandra and Tiwari, 1987; Islam
et al., 2002; Engida et al., 2006; Tesfaye, 2006).
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Table 1. Genotypic (above diagonal) and Phenotypic (blow diagonal) correlation coefficients of 15 traits in orange-fleshed sweet potato genotypes grown with and without N-fertilizer
at Jari and Sirinka, 2006.
RL RD PH INL IND LA AGFB DM ARW MKSRN MKSRY UNSRN UNSRY TSRN TSRY
RL -0.819 0.631 0.364 -0.364 0.434 0.148 0.446 -0.281 -0.491 -0.539 -0.583 -0.705 -0.605 -0.791
RD -0.556 -0.315 -0.383 0.343 -0.484 -0.066 -0.719 0.768 0.207 0.487 -0.029 0.861 0.035 0.891
PH 0.547 -0.245 0.722 -0.229 0.374 0.433 0.376 -0.083 -0.159 -0.066 -0.601 -0.477 -0.526 -0.405
INL 0.346 -0.303 0.583* -0.018 0.738 0.483 0.41 -0.473 0.095 0.013 -0.175 -0.584 -0.114 -0.455
IND -0.258 0.291 -0.156 0.047 0.332 0.715 -0.261 -0.019 -0.151 -0.037 0.058 -0.103 0.004 -0.097
LA 0.322 -0.312 0.327 0.546 0.313 0.564 0.333 -0.658 0.01 -0.037 -0.011 -0.753 -0.006 -0.61
AGFB 0.125 -0.022 0.39 0.369 0.585* 0.462 0.307 -0.277 -0.304 -0.246 -0.329 -0.664 -0.349 -0.631
DM 0.391 -0.49 0.347 0.343 -0.213 0.238 0.263 -0.658 -0.202 -0.501 -0.069 -0.779 -0.112 -0.833
ARW -0.236 0.649* -0.061 -0.344 0.004 -0.49 -0.2 -0.568 -0.382 -0.038 -0.508 0.799 -0.515 0.614
MKSRN -0.34 0.183 -0.099 0.137 -0.099 0.028 -0.144 -0.135 -0.27 0.929* 0.618 0.057 0.776 0.449
MKSRY -0.35 0.418 0.009 0.077 0.02 0.034 -0.05 -0.363 0.06 0.857** 0.363 0.274 0.552 0.651
UNSRN -0.446 -0.038 -0.489 -0.124 0.078 0.008 -0.206 -0.052 -0.495 0.432 0.215 0.098 0.975** 0.236
UNSRY -0.586* 0.694* -0.414 -0.433 -0.062 -0.568 -0.487 -0.655* 0.763** 0.04 0.223 0.115 0.095 0.908*
TSRN -0.474 0.024 -0.436 -0.062 0.034 0.015 -0.215 -0.084 -0.493 0.662* 0.438 0.962** 0.108 0.315
TSRY -0.622* 0.738** -0.312 -0.292 -0.037 -0.417 -0.397 -0.681* 0.612* 0.457 0.668* 0.195 0.874** 0.301
*: significant at α = 0.05; **: highly significant at α = 0.01
RL: Root length (cm); RD: Root diameter (cm); PH: Plant height (cm); INL: Internode length (cm); IND: Internode diameter (mm); LA: Leaf area (cm2); AGFB: Above ground fresh b iomass
(t/ha); DM: Root dry matter content (%); ARW: Average storage root weight (g); MKSRN: Marketable storage root number/plot; MKSRY: Marketable storage root yield (t/ha); UNSRN:
Unmarketable storage root number/plot; UNSRY: Unmarketable storage root yield (t/ha); TSRN: Total storage root number/plot; TSRY: Total storage root yield (t/ha).
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On the other hand, root length had negative
and significant correlation with total storage root
yield at phenotypic level. In addition, dry-matter
content of the root was significantly and negatively
correlated with total storage root yield. Their
genotypic counterpart was also negative, though
non-significant, and had large magnitude than theirphenotypic values. The present result was in
agreement with the result obtained by Islam et al.
(2002). They indicated the presence of negative
and highly significant associations between dry-
matter content of the root and total storage root
yield. Therefore, these traits could not be improved
with total storage root yield in positive direction
since selection higher values of these traits would
lead to reduced total storage root yield. Moreover,
their association with total storage root yield was
controlled by genetic factor.
Table 1 also shows that most of the positive
phenotypic correlation coefficients of total storage
root yield with other traits were significant. On the
contrary, among negative correlations only two
traits had significant association with total storage
root yield. The rest were non-significant and small
in magnitude.
CONCLUSIONS
Total storage root yield had significant positive
genotypic correlation with unmarketable storage
root yield. The result indicated that the possibility
of improving these traits in positive direction.
However, the association of other traits with totalstorage root yield was insignificant. On the other
hand, total storage root yield showed highly
significant positive phenotypic correlation with
unmarketable storage root yield and root diameter.
It was also positively and significantly correlated
with average storage root weight and marketable
storage root yield. Besides, it was also negatively
and significantly associated with root dry-matter
content and root length. Unmarketable storage root
yield and root diameter have to receive great
emphasis during sweet potato variety selection.
Moreover, marketable storage root yield andaverage storage root weight also need some
attention during selection. On the other hand, root
dry-matter content and root length were negatively
correlated and we have to be cautious during
selection since they would cause negative effect on
the improvement of the total storage root yield.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The authors would like to acknowledge staffs of
Sirinka Agricultural Research Center particularly
who worked in Horticulture Research Program of
the center.
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