Department of Vegetable Crops, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana -141 004
A field study with 10 x 10 diallel analysis (without reciprocals) in edible podded pea at Ludhiana indicated that the mean squares for general combining ability (gca) were higher than those of specific combining ability (sea) in all the characters. Sugar Bon showed highest gca for days to 50% flowering and number of branches per plant and the second highest gca for plant height. Mithiphali had maximum gca effects for total and marketable green pod yield per plant. Cross combination Sugar Daddy x JP-19 recorded highest specific combining ability for total and marketable green pod yield per plant followed by Early Snap x Mithiphali.
Edible podded pea, diallel analysis, specific combining ability, general combining ability
