Jameel M Al-Khayri, Ehab M B Mahdy, Heba S A Taha, Ahmed S Eldomiaty, Mohamed A Abd-Elfattah, Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef, Adel A Rezk, Wael F Shehata, Mustafa I Almaghasla, Tarek A Shalaby, Muhammad N Sattar, Hesham S Ghazzawy, Mohamed F Awad, Khalid M Alali, Shri Mohan Jain, Abdallah A Hassanin
Determining the appropriate parents for breeding programs is the most important decision that plant breeders must make to maximize the genetic variability and produce excellent recombinant genotypes. Several methods are used to identify genotypes with desirable phenotypic features for breeding experiments. In this study, five kalanchoe genotypes were morphologically characterized by assessing plant height, number of inflorescences, number of flowers, flower length, flower diameter and number of petals. The analysis showed the distinction of yellow kalanchoe in the plant height trait, while the orange kalanchoe was distinguished in the number of inflorescences, the number of flowers and flower length traits, whereas the violet kalanchoe possessed the largest flower diameter and the highest number of petals...
June 29, 2022: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)