Combining ability for grain yield and other related characters under salt stress conditions was studied in a set of diallel crosses involving ten cultivars of breadwheat. Both additive and nonadditive gene effects were important in the inheritance of most of the traits. The parent varieties HD 2285, KRL 1–4 and PBW 65 and cross KRL 3–4 X KRL 1–4 had high gca and sca, respectively, and they could be utilized for further selection of high yielding progenies under salt stress conditions.
Triticum aestivum, combining ability, salt stress
