caa a22 4500 477053327 CHVBK 20180405111343.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02221393 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02221393 Occurrence and detection of early sex-related differences in Telfairia occidentalis [Elektronische Daten] [L. Emebiri, M. Nwufo] The present study sought to assess the occurrence and early detection of sex-related differences for yielding ability inTelfairia occidentalis, using half-sib progenies from six diverse sources. Male plants flowered at 86 days after planting, 32 days earlier than females. Sex-related differences explained 12-43% of observed phenotypic variation for the measures of vegetable yielding ability. The strongest linkage with sex was observed for the size of the vine shoots harvested, with the effect of sex estimated at 1.29 standard deviations. There was, however, a significant heterogeneity in sex-related differences across families. Size per vine shoot and leaf yield per harvest showed early occurrence of sexual dimorphism, with sex-related differences occurring as early as 64 days after planting for size of vine shoots. Springer-Verlag, 1996 Telfairia occidentalis nationallicence Leaf yield nationallicence Dioecy nationallicence Sex-linkage nationallicence Emebiri L. Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 1526, Owerri, Nigeria aut Nwufo M. Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 1526, Owerri, Nigeria aut Sexual Plant Reproduction Springer-Verlag 9/3(1996-05-01), 140-144 0934-0882 9:3<140 1996 9 497 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02221393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02221393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Emebiri L. Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 1526, Owerri, Nigeria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nwufo M. Federal University of Technology, P.M.B. 1526, Owerri, Nigeria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sexual Plant Reproduction Springer-Verlag 9/3(1996-05-01), 140-144 0934-0882 9:3<140 1996 9 497 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer