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Combining ability analysis identifies the parents able to transfer their desirable traits to their descendants. It suggests the best hybrid combination and supplies data on the type of gene action, which controls the different agronomic traits. Combining ability in its most general form refers to the behaviour of lines, or cultivars when crossed in direct or reciprocal combinations to obtain the hybrids. The General Combining Ability (GCA) of a line refers to the behaviour of the line in a series of crosses based on the mean value of the resulting F1 hybrids. The performance of a particular cross may deviate from the mean of the GCA, and this deviation is known as the Specific Combining Ability (SCA) (Allard, 1971).
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Fontes, J.R.M., Cardoso, A.A., Cruz, C.D., Pereira, A.A., Zambolim, L., Sakiyama, N.S. (2000). Study of Combining Ability and Heterosis in Coffee. In: Sera, T., Soccol, C.R., Pandey, A., Roussos, S. (eds) Coffee Biotechnology and Quality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1068-8_8
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