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Maintenance of genetic diversity in Eucalyptus urophylla S. T. Blake populations with restriction of the number of trees per family

2018; De Gruyter Open; Volume: 67; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2478/sg-2018-0005

2509-8934

Paulo Henrique Müller da Silva, Arno Brune, Silvelise Pupin, Mário Luiz Teixeira de Moraes, Alexandre Magno Sebbenn, Rinaldo César de Paula,

Soil Management and Crop Yield

Abstract Our aim was to verify the effect on gain and genetic diversity through the restriction of the number of trees per family in selection, in order to compose an elite population of Eucalyp­tus urophylla in two trials under distinct management levels. We studied 166 open-pollinated families of E. urophylla in Anhembi, Sao Paulo State, Brazil under commercial practices, and the same families in Selvíria, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Bra­zil under lower management level (mainly no mineral fertiliza­tion). Mortality, height and diameter at breast height (DBH) were measured. DBH was analyzed by the REML/BLUP to select the best 25 trees, with four levels of tree restriction per family (no restriction; 1; 2 and 3 per family). We evaluated heritability; genetic gain and effective size of number of total and private alleles; observed and expected heterozygosity; coancestry and fixation index. A large difference in survival (48 and 83 %) and productivity (MAI of 26 and 44 m 3 ha -1 y -1 ) was observed bet­ween trials due to the different levels of management applied. The highest restriction in number of individuals per family caused a small decrease in gain, corresponding to 7 % in the more productive trial and 3 % in the less productive one. Observed and expected heterozygosity, coancestry and fixati­on index were not significantly (lower than 5 %) affected by the restriction in both sites. The restriction of one tree per family allowed different alleles to be kept in the selected population and higher effective population size in order to insure variation for the next generations.