Table 4 Evolution of the CNA6 population across cycles and the impact of selection on the three traits: grain yield (YLD, kg.ha−1), days to flowering (FLW, days) and plant height (PHT, cm).

From: Population improvement via recurrent selection drives genetic gain in upland rice breeding

Trait

Cycle

Controls

Families

S

Mean Difference

RS

H2

Evaluated

Selected

Ev-Ctrl

Sel-Ctrl

Cycles

YLD

3

3036.3

2317.7

2514.8 (47)

197.0

−718.5

−521.5

.

39.7

0.20

4

2406.8

1823.7

1958.5 (45)

135.0

−583.0

−448.3

−556.3

20.0

0.15

5

3890.9

3350.4

3434.6 (46)

84.2

−540.5

−456.3

1476.1

4.8

0.06

6

3536.5

3301.6

3395.4 (25)

93.8

−234.9

−141.1

−39.2

9.7

0.10

7

3038.1

4166.7

4417.3 (38)

251.0

1128.6

1379.2

1021.9

146.0

0.41

FLW

3

77

80.6

81.1 (47)

0.5

3.6

4.1

.

0.3

0.62

4

87.3

92.8

92 (45)

−0.9

5.5

4.7

10.8

−0.6

0.73

5

71.7

71.3

71.5 (46)

0.2

−0.4

−0.2

−20.5

0.1

0.56

6

82.5

80.7

80.7 (25)

−0.08

−1.8

−1.8

9.2

−0.03

0.43

7

79.2

82.5

82.2 (38)

−0.2

3.3

3.0

1.6

−0.2

0.47

PHT

3

102.1

102.1

102 (47)

0.4

0

−0.1

.

0.1

0.24

4

90

96

95.9 (45)

−0.1

6

5.9

−6.5

−0.03

0.24

5

113.5

116.1

116 (46)

−0.5

2.6

2.5

19.7

−0.07

0.15

6

108.3

120.1

120 (25)

0.2

11.8

11.7

4.7

0.02

0.15

7

104.4

105.5

106 (38)

0.4

1.1

1.4

−14.4

0.21

0.40

  1. The following information is reported: mean for the controls, the S0:2 families and selected families (the number of families selected is in brackets); selection differential between the selected families and all S0:2 families for a given cycle (S); mean difference between evaluated families and controls (Ev-Ctrl); mean difference between the selected families and controls (Sel-Ctrl); mean difference between cycles (Cycles); and gain from selection (kg.ha−1) with the selected families by cycle (RS); broad-sense heritability (H2).