1Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi-110 001.
Janta College, Bakewar (Etawah)
Combining ability studies through 10 x 10 diallel in peas showed that general and specific combining ability variances were significant. In general, additive genetic variance was found higher than dominance variance for all the characters. The per se performance of parents was found related to their g.c.a. effects. Parents T10, P185, 6583 and P199 were found good combiners. The crosses P199 x P185, P199 x 479B, T163 x T10, T163 x P185, T10 x 6113 and BR12 x 6113 gave significant s.c.a. effects for several traits.
