New Cultivars Derived from Crosses between Commercial Cultivar and a Wild Population of Papaya Rescued at Its Center of Origin

Table 1

Statistics parameters from values of seven morphological traits measured in the parent lines L7 and M22 as well as in the F1 and F2 progenies, resulting from the intraspecific cross L7 × M.

Parameter	PH	HFF	SD	PL	NFLN	NFN	NFP
M22	165.2	85.0	12.2	72.0	4.0	1.8	23.8
L7	203.0	98.0	11.5	89.0	6.0	4.0	68.0
Mean F1	195.5	94.8	9.36	84.1	4.2	1.3	29.5
Mean F2	229.6	115.0	11.1	76.4	2.6	2.2	26.6
Minimum F1	164.5	47.8	6.8	50.8	3.0	1.0	6.0
Minimum F2	170.0	62.0	6.2	50.0	1.0	1.0	6.0
Maximum F1	238.0	120.5	11.9	11.8	7.7	2.3	67.5
Maximum F2	297.0	187.0	18.0	119.0	7.0	5.0	94.0
S2 F1	18.9	15.3	1.29	13.5	1.5	0.4	14.6
S2 F2	44.8	32.5	2.6	15.7	1.6	1.2	21.2
CV (%) F	10.2	16.2	13.8	16.1	35.2	32.4	49.5
CV (%) F	19.5	28.3	23.5	20.5	61.5	56.8	79.9
Normality* F	0.9763	0.9434	0.9676	0.9835	0.7977	0.8243	0.9731
Normality* F	0.8893	0.9548	0.9852	0.9487	0.8742	0.8333	0.7148

PH: plant height, HFF: height of first fruit, SD: stem diameter, PL: length of petiole, NFLN: number of flowers per node, NFN: number of fruits per node, NFP: number of fruits per plant, S2: standard deviation, CV: coefficient of variation, L7: parent receiver, M22: parent donor, and F1 and F2: F1 and F2 progenies; *Shapiro-Wilk test.