College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal-795 004, Manipur, India
*Corresponding author's e-mail: chuwang1986april2@gmail.com
Online published on 26 February, 2019.
Eight parents of aromatic rice were crossed in half diallel mating design without reciprocal including parents. The parents were evaluated foreleven different characters. Genetic analysis was done through Griffing's Method II Model I. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among parents and their crosses for all the characters. Combining ability analysis revealed that gca and sca variance were highly significant for most of the characters studied in F1 generation. Amongst the parental lines, Basmati Kasturi was a good general combiner for plant height at maturity, total number of spikelets per panicle, total number of filled grains per panicle and grain yield per plant in F1 generation while the most promising specific combiners for grain yield per plant were Basmatix Chakhao Angangb aand Basmati Kasturi x Basmati 370.
Additive gene effects, Combining ability, Diallel analysis, gca effect, Non-additive gene effects, sca effect
