National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The heterosis and combining ability study was conducted in pearl millet involving 60 crosses and 32 parents for 10 quantitative traits to predict the gene action involved in inheritance of yield and yield contributing traits and to identify best general combiners and superior crosses. Among parents, the line ICMA 04999 and testers 2325, 2396, 2306, 2337, 2348 and 2394 were the good general combiners for grain yield and could be used in hybridization programme to exploit their general combining ability. The components of variance due to gca and sca revealed predominance of non-additive gene action for all the traits. The cross ICMA 04999 × 2309 recorded high significant positive sca effect, mid parent, better parent heterotic effect and per se performance for grain yield.
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