426635

Breeding mutation by gamma radiation on M3 plants for improvement of morphological and physical characters in Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Plants

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Last updated: 11 May 2025

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Horticulture sciences

Abstract

Gamma radiation is an effective mutational breeding method for improving various growth and floral characteristics of ornamental plants. This Experiment was undertaken with an objective to investigate the effect of gamma irradiation on the growth and floral characteristics of G. pulchella plants during the third generation (M3). Irradiation treatments were performed on the seeds in the first generation only, Gamma-1 type cobalt60 was used to expose seed plants to different dosages such as 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60Gy. The results indicated that control plants gave the highest values of seed germination; meanwhile, the lowest value was recorded with 60 Gy. The tallest plants, greatest leaves number, biggest stems, longest roots, early flowering, and largest flowers number were achieved with the doses of 10, 20, and 40 Gy over the control. In contrast, with increasing the radiation level to 50 and 60 Gy had a negative effect, and decreased these characters to the lowest values, but increased the number of days elapsed to flowering. All the investigated characters exhibited significant positive correlations, except for number of days from planting to flowering, which was significantly negatively correlated with all characters. All flowering characters correlated with each other in a medium to high significant correlation. Using gamma increased relative water content, but decreased electrolyte leakage compared to the control. All gamma doses decreased membrane stability percentage; in except for the smallest dose (10 Gy). Using 10 and 20 Gy gave the highest values of number of disc flowers rows, diameter of flowering bud, and receptacle. 

DOI

10.21608/jassd.2025.371499.1046

Keywords

Gaillardia pulchella, Gamma rays, breeding, morphological characters and anatomical structure

Authors

First Name

R.M.S

Last Name

Radwan

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Affiliation

Ornamental Plants and Woody Trees Department, Agricultural and Biological Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

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ragabradwan.54@gmail.com

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0000-0003-4747-5532

First Name

Rawia

Last Name

Eid

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-

Affiliation

Ornamental Plants and Woody Trees Department, Agricultural and Biological Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

Email

rawia_e@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0003-3332-969x

First Name

M.

Last Name

El-Khateeb

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Ornamental Hort., Faculty of Agric., Cairo University, Egypt

Email

khatibmuhamd2013@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hossam

Last Name

Ashour

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-

Affiliation

Department of Ornamental Hort., Faculty of Agric., Cairo University, Egypt

Email

hossam.ahmed@agr.cu.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-1163-1057

First Name

Nahed

Last Name

Abd El-Aziz

MiddleName

G

Affiliation

Ornamental Plants and Woody Trees Department, Agricultural and Biological Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

Email

prof.nahed1111@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-5398-8046

Volume

2

Article Issue

2

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55300

Issue Date

2025-06-01

Receive Date

2025-03-26

Publish Date

2025-06-01

Page Start

243

Page End

262

Print ISSN

3009-6375

Online ISSN

3009-6219

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2,978

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Publication Title

Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development

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https://jassd.journals.ekb.eg/

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Breeding mutation by gamma radiation on M3 plants for improvement of morphological and physical characters in Gaillardia pulchella Foug. Plants

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11 May 2025