[PDF] Top 20 Heterosis response for green fodder yield and its quality traits in forage maize (Zea mays L.)

... matter yield per plant, crude protein content and crude yield per plant are better for good quality ...positive heterosis is desirable for these ...positive heterosis effect over better ... See full document

... matter yield and green fodder ...selection. Traits like in-vitro dry matter digestibility, neutral detergent fibre had high h 2 but low values of GA suggesting that selection may not be ... See full document

... both fodder quantity and quality as it is a component of protein and ...determines yield of maize (Igbal et al., 2006). Fodder sorghum (Sorghum bicolor ...cereal forage in the ... See full document

... The maize crop is characterized by its wide adaptability to the different ranges of growing ...of maize, being as an out crossing crop, is very broad for conservation and utilization in breeding ... See full document

... nutritional quality of maize protein yielded the quality protein maize which contains opaque-2, a single gene mutation that alter the protein composition of the endosperm protein and nearly ... See full document

... all traits but IVR gas production, linear models included variety (fixed), year (random), and variety-by-year inter- action ...the forage quality and com- position measurements was generated by ... See full document

... 12for green fodder yield. This manifestation of heterosis might be due to significance in sca ...in fodder yield offered by heterosis have prompted use of hybrids in ... See full document

... dry forage yield compared to the control in the two ...higher response under chicken and cattle manure in combination with ...increased forage dry and fresh ...increased forage dry and ... See full document

... of heterosis over standard check (Pinnacle) for grain yield per ...grain yield per hectare and yield components like 100-grain weight, grain yield per plant, number of kernel rows per ... See full document

... the traits, over the environments, exhibited significant differences among environments, genotypes and genotype × environment interaction (Table ...differential response of genotypes over the environments, ... See full document

... heterotic response varied not only from character to character but also cross to ...important traits for consideration of crop duration. So, for these traits, negative heterosis is ...other ... See full document

... grain yield, plant height and number of ear per plant indicated that inbred lines performed differently as reflected in their respective test crosses from one environment to ...grain yield and number of ... See full document

... grain yield and its contributing traits in maize was performed with 15 inbred line and 3 tester parents and the resulting 45 hybrids using line x tester cross analysis in three environments ... See full document

... of heterosis was studied at College of Agricultural farm; Rajendranagar for thirteen important characters in Line x Tester mating design comprising of twenty four crosses from 6 lines and 4 testers in maize ... See full document

... for yield increase in all breeding schemes except line breeding (Schnell, ...standard heterosis of crosses over the commercial checks for traits such as grain yield, plant height, ear height, ... See full document

... as maize and therefore, it occupies the unique place as “Queen of ...nutritional quality of maize protein yielded the quality protein maize which contains opaque-2, a single gene ... See full document

... among maize genotypes for days to ...studied traits (Table ...of maize crop and maize varieties with early maturity are always desirable in multiple cropping ... See full document

... and yield [3]. Therefore, crop yield is limited by two important mobile resources, including nitrate and water, as well as two immobile resources, P and K ...crop yield improvement ... See full document

... Sweet corn (Zea mays L. saccharata) is gaining momentum during recent days as immature cob used as vegetable or eaten after boiling in many countries throughout the world including India. It is an ... See full document

... about the selection of parents which in turn throws better segregants. The variance due to general combining ability (gca) is usually considered to be an indicator of the extent of additive type of gene action, whereas ... See full document