Land electrical conductivity
The condition of soybean plants in the experimental field became the basis for land division into three areas for electrical conductivity (EC) measurement, namely north, central and south. EC in the northern area is relatively lower than central and southern areas. EC value increases at 45 days after sowing (DAS) and decreases at 56 DAS. EC values in experimental field ranged 8.7-18.4 dS/m from before planting to harvest (Fig 1).
Crossbreed combination lines
Soybean lines resulting from Argomulyo/Anjasmoro crossbreed combination had significantly lower plant height, number of fertile nodes and number of filled pods compared to the other two crossbreed combination lines, but not significantly different in the number of branches and seeds weight per plant. Number of filled pods had the highest diversity compared to the other characters in the three crossbreed combinations (Table 1).
T-test also employed to compare parental and filial pheotype. Parental observation result value and the mean of each yield component, are presented in Table 2. GH K13/Anjasmoro lines have significantly higher plant than its female parent, but not significant than its male parent. MLGG 0160 as a female parent has more filled pods than MLGG 0160/Anjamoro lines as its filial. Argomulyo/Anjasmoro lines has no significant difference with its female parent, Argomulyo, in number of fertile nodes and filled pods, but has significantly less than Anjasmoro as the male parent (Table 2).
Phenotype variance
Phenotype variance value of saline adaptive soybean lines in F
3 generation was higher than genotypic variance value. This value suggested that the involvement of environmental factor occured in the phenotypic performance that will determine the heritability of certain trait. Heritability determines the selection progress and selection method that could be used in breeding program (
Kuswantoro, 2017b). Plant height character had high heritability value on the results of crossing GH K13/Anjasmoro and low to medium on the results of the other two crosses. The number of branches had a high heritability value on the results of crossing GH K13/ Anjasmoro and low to medium on the results of the other two crosses. The number of fertile node had a low heritability value on the results of the crossing of MLGG0160 / Anjasmoro and Argomulyo / Anjasmoro, as well as the medium on the GH K13/Anjasmoro crossing results.
The character of the number of filled pods had a high heritability value on the results of crossing GH K13/Anjasmoro, medium on Argomulyo/Anjasmoro and low on MLGG0160/Anjasmoro. Character weight of seeds per plant had a high heritability value on the results of the Argomulyo/Anjasmoro crossing, medium on GH K13/Anjasmoro and low on MLGG0160/Anjasmoro (Table 3). Selection/genetic advance of the five characters in all crossbreed combination lines was varied low to high. GH K13/Anjasmoro crossbreed combination lines had higher selection/genetic advance compared to the others for all yield component characters (Table 3).
Performance of selected lines
Selection based on number of filled pods produced 172 lines from three cross combinations. The performance of selected lines is listed in Table 4. The most average height of selected lines was only 26.4 cm, with 11 fertile nodes, 27 filled pods and 4.8 g seed weight per plant which owned by GH K13/Anjasmoro lines. The highest seed weight per plant was 5.3 g, belongs to Argomulyo/Anjasmoro lines.
Individual plants that grow normally have ability to survive due to salinity stress at the initial growth.
Aini et al., (2014) reported that soybean growth at early vegetative phase could be a selection indicator for salinity tolerance in soybean genotype. Genotypes that are sensitive to salinity will show salt toxicity symptoms,
i.e. chlorosis, burnt leaf edges and stunted growth. The lines phenotypic diversity value was greater than the genotypic diversity. This showed environmental influence on the lines performance in this study.
Heritability estimation was employed to determine the chance of a character inheritance in each generation. Plant height, number of branches and number of filled pods in GH K13/Anjasmoro crosses and seed weight per plant in Argomulyo/Anjasmoro crosses have high heritability. High heritability estimation value indicate that the inheritance is more influenced by genetic factors. Combination of genetic variability, high heritability and genetic advance or selection progress of a character indicates that it is appropiate to be used as selection indicator
(Baraskar et al., 2014; Osekita and Olorunfemi 2014;
Astari et al., 2016; Kuswantoro 2017a;
Kuswantoro et al., 2018). Number of filled pods was suitable to be used as a selection indicator in this study, based on the value of genetic variability and heritability. Plant height was also considered an effective trait as a direct selection criteria to obtain high seed yield in soybean breeding (
Ghodrati 2013;
Malek et al., 2014; Krisnawati and Adie’s 2016).
Genetic advance or selection progress is used to determine the success of the selection using an indicator character in each generation. GH K13/Anjasmoro lines have high selection progress for all characters and could be carried out in the further stage with several improvements.