Department of Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar 125004.
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The effectiveness of sibmating was compared with conventional selfing in two intervarietal crosses, WH 416 X UNC 1 and HSW 147 X Kalyan Sona of breadwheat. Sibmating proved to be more effective in improving the mean performance for most of the characters studied in both the crosses. The lower limit of the range in sibs also improved in desired direction for most characters. Sibs population maintained sufficiently high genetic variation for most of the characters in HSW147 X Kalyan Sona but the reverse trend was observed in WH 416 x UNC1. Sibs also exhibited improvement in the heritability estimates and genetic advance for some of the characters.
Breadwheat, sibmating
