Dept. of Agril. Botany, College of Agriculture, Dharwad
*Part of the thesis submitted by the first author for the M,Sc. Agri. degree of the University of Agril. Sciences, Bangalore, in 1978,
The results indicated the predominance of additive gene action for days to anthesis, days to silk and days to husk drying and non-additive gene action for grain yield per plant.