Claim · model-written summary
Three crosses had positive better-parent heterosis for number of seeds/plant under both sowing dates.
- Taxon
- Faba Bean
Vicia fabat0 - Material
- crossese0
- Outcome
- number of seeds/plante0
- Direction
- positive heterotic effectse0
- Value
- threee0
- Qualifier
- under the two sowing datese0
- Comparator
- better parente0
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Verbatim
e0“three, six and four crosses exhibited significant positive heterotic effects relative to better parent for number of seeds/plant, seed yield/plant and 100-seed weight respectively, under the two sowing dates”
t0“Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.)”
Title
Ibrahim Abd EL-Rahaman Annals of Agricultural Science Moshtohor 2018. doi:10.21608/assjm.2018.47778
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Parents and F1 genotypes varied significantly, indicating genetic variability for studied characters.
- Association Most crosses had significant positive better-parent heterosis for total dry seed yield.
- Association Six crosses had positive better-parent heterosis for seed yield/plant under both sowing dates.
- Association Four crosses had positive better-parent heterosis for 100-seed weight under both sowing dates.
- Observation General and specific combining ability were significant for most studied traits.
- Observation Giza716 combined well for seed yield per plant and 100-seed weight under both sowing dates.
- Association Sakha 4 x Qahera 4 showed positive SCA for seed yield per plant.
- Association Cross 957 x Giza 843 showed positive SCA for seed yield per plant.
- Association Giza 716 x Qahera 4 showed positive SCA for seed yield per plant.
- Association Sakha1 x Misr 1 showed positive SCA for 100-seed weight.
- Association Sakha 4 x Misr 1 showed positive SCA for 100-seed weight.
- Association Giza 40 x Giza 843 showed positive SCA for 100-seed weight.
- Observation Broad sense heritability estimates exceeded narrow sense estimates.
- Observation Narrow sense heritability for number of seeds/plant ranged 37.7-40.4 %.
- Observation Narrow sense heritability for seed yield/plant ranged 33.7-46.8 %.
- Observation Narrow sense heritability for 100-seed weight ranged 45.5-48.3 %.