Combining ability for fruit yield and quality in papaya recombinant inbred lines from the sexual conversion backcrossing

In Brazil there is a limitation in the choice of commercial papaya hybrids for cropping. This factor is responsible for the crop vulnerability to the pests and diseases attack, being of great importance the investigations that aim at the availability of new genotypes. In papaya breeding programs to developed new hybrids, the lines should be evaluated by their combining ability. This step is important to select the superior parents for superior...