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CORRECTION article

Front. Plant Sci., 14 August 2025

Sec. Plant Breeding

Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1627898

Corrigendum: Testcross performance and combining ability of intermediate maturing drought tolerant maize inbred lines in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  1. Testcross performance and combining ability of intermediate maturing drought tolerant maize inbred lines in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Kulai Amadu Manigben,,Kulai Amadu Manigben1,2,3Yoseph Beyene*Yoseph Beyene1*Vijay ChaikamVijay Chaikam1Pangirayi B. TongoonaPangirayi B. Tongoona2Eric Y. DanquahEric Y. Danquah2Beatrice E. IfieBeatrice E. Ifie2Isaiah AleriIsaiah Aleri1Andrew ChavangiAndrew Chavangi1Boddupalli M. PrasannaBoddupalli M. Prasanna1Manje Gowda*Manje Gowda1*
  • 1International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), United Nations Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
  • 2West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
  • 3Maize Improvement Program (MIP), The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Tamale, Ghana

A Corrigendum on
Testcross performance and combining ability of intermediate maturing drought tolerant maize inbred lines in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Manigben KA, Beyene Y, Chaikam V, Tongoona PB, Danquah EY, Ifie BE, Aleri I, Chavangi A, Prasanna BM and Gowda M (2024). Front. Plant Sci. 15:1471041. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1471041

In the published article, there was an error in Figure 1 and 3 as published. Figures 1 and 3 were interchanged.

The corrected Figure 1 and its caption are shown below:

Figure 1
Six histograms compare plant traits under optimum (red) and managed drought (blue) conditions. Traits include grain yield, anthesis date, silking date, anthesis-silking interval, plant height, and ear height, with varying frequency distributions.

Figure 1. Frequency distribution of grain yield, anthesis date, silking date, anthesis–silking interval, plant height, and ear height recorded under managed drought and optimum conditions. Blue color denotes traits measured under drought stress and orange color denotes trait performance under optimum condition.

The corrected Figure 3 and its caption are shown below:

Figure 3
Bar chart showing the proportion of total genotype variance across different categories. Most categories are dominated by red bars (GCA-Line), with smaller sections of blue (GCA-Tester) and yellow (SCA-Line:Tester) in some categories. The categories on the x-axis are GY_DS, AD_DS, SD_DS, ASI_DS, PH_DS, EH_DS, GY_Opt, AD_Opt, SD_Opt, ASI_Opt, PH_Opt, and EH_Opt. The y-axis represents the percentage from 0 to 100.

Figure 3. Proportional contribution of GCA-Line, GCA-Tester, and SCA-Line by Tester interaction to total genotype variance of testcrosses for GY and other secondary traits under drought (DS), optimum (Opt), and across all environments (ACR) conditions. The lower bar denoted by red color indicates the GCA-Line; the middle bar denoted by sea blue represents the GCA-Tester, and the upper bar denoted by yellow indicates the SCA-Line by Tester interaction.

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: drought, grain yield, general combining ability, line-by-tester design, specific combining ability, maize

Citation: Manigben KA, Beyene Y, Chaikam V, Tongoona PB, Danquah EY, Ifie BE, Aleri I, Chavangi A, Prasanna BM and Gowda M (2025) Corrigendum: Testcross performance and combining ability of intermediate maturing drought tolerant maize inbred lines in Sub-Saharan Africa. Front. Plant Sci. 16:1627898. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1627898

Received: 13 May 2025; Accepted: 29 July 2025;
Published: 14 August 2025.

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*Correspondence: Manje Gowda, bS5nb3dkYUBjZ2lhci5vcmc=; Yoseph Beyene, eS5iZXllbmVAY2dpYXIub3Jn

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