[PDF] Top 20 Diallel cross analysis in Maize

... genetic analysis of interest traits, because they lead to a better understanding of the genetic relationship between crossed lineages, thereby the diallel crosses are useful for predicting the best ... See full document

... that cross combination of any parental lines may create hybrid vigour over the parents, which might be due to dominant, over dominant or epistatic type of gene ...top cross combinations selected on the ... See full document

... Diallel cross among selected parents can provide information about genetic variation in a population derived from random mating of ...date) diallel cross analysis has received ... See full document

... its analysis is of special importance in cross-pollinated crops like maize as it helps in identifying potential parents that can be used for producing hybrids and synthetics (Uddin et ...in ... See full document

... study, analysis of combining ability revealed that variances for GCA were larger than those of SCA for all the traits except number of bolls per plant, indicating the preponderance of additive action, which could ... See full document

... Thousand kernel weight showed positive and highly significant GCA effects for parents P2, P5, P9, P10 and P14 and hence the lines were best general combiners whereas parental lines, P1, P4 and P7 showed negative and ... See full document

... When the inbred lines are considered to be a sample of the lines resulting from inbreeding a random-mating population, GRIFFING’S ( 1956a,b) analyses of vari- ance supply tests [r] ... See full document

... F , and H,, are expressed partly in terms of these mean statistics (first row of coefficients in each case) and partly in terms of the corresponding nine rth observed stat[r] ... See full document

... 45 maize hybrids developed by ten parents in maize during rabi, 2011-12 over three locations ...pooled analysis of variance (Diallel) revealed significant differences among locations and ... See full document

... Complete analysis of variance for 5 × 5 diallel cross was carried out for spike length which indicated (Table 3) that item a, which was the measure of additive gene ef- fect appeared with significant ... See full document

... The required experimental design comprises all possible crosses, including recip- rocals and selfing, among a number of individuals, and the proposed analysis esti- ma[r] ... See full document

... exclude the missing values. If this adjustment eliminates the interaction the whole table may be analysed without having t o omit all the progeny either of Bs or o[r] ... See full document

... TL and NB, on the average for each group, were in the range of 34 to 40 and 9 to 18, respectively; for both traits there was a slight decrease from ε 1 to ε 2 . Such ranges were somewhat below the ranges (36.1 to 46.0 ... See full document

... of maize genotype. The diallel cross method have been devised specifically to show the combining ability of the parental lines for the purpose of identification of superior parents for use in hybrid ... See full document

... Seven diverse cowpea parents were selected and crossed in half diallel fashion in order to determine combining ability to identify promising hybrids for eleven traits including yield and its components.Analysis of ... See full document

... If this item is significant, however, the conclu- sions cannot be clear-cut without evidence from analysis of the variances and co- variances of the arrays of the d[r] ... See full document

... with their parental lines were planted in the same field trial. The trial was laid out in 6 x 6 triple lattice in two replications. The plot size used was 3m x 1m in two rows. Each plot comprised the 20 cuttings from ... See full document

... ability analysis is one of the powerful tools in identifying the better combiners which may be hybridized to exploit heterosis and to select better crosses for direct use or further breeding work (Nigussie and ... See full document

... context, diallel crosses are very efficient because they allow estimating parameters useful for the selection of parents and for understanding the genetic effects involved in determining these features (Cruz and ... See full document

... Genes with minor effects also in- fluenced the photoperiodic response in a quantitative manner.-Diallel cross analysis of the number of days to heading (log scale) indicat[r] ... See full document