The importance of earliness for creating new MS f-1 pepper hybrids

Abstract

Cvikic D., N. Pavlovic, M. Brdar and Z. Girek (2010): The importance of earliness for crating new msF1 pepper hybrids - Genetika, Vol 42, No. 3, 521-528. Breeding new line pepper genotypes is an important goal for the Institute for Vegetable Crops, Smederevska Palanka. Years of selection resulted in great number of varieties, however, the selection of F-1 pepper hybrids started recently. Pepper F-1 hybrids have proved to be better than cultivars in the terms of earliness, yield, plant uniformity, pathogen resistance etc. Considering significant heterosis values for earliness, this paper deals with the genetic analysis of F-1 and F-2 pepper hybrids, obtained by crossing four lines, including ms line HM-6.