The Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding

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  • Year: 2000
  • Volume: 60
  • Issue: 4

Combining ability analysis for fruit yield, capsaicin and other quantitative traits in chillies (Capsicum annum L.) over environments

  • Author:
  • H. C. Lohiti-Iaswa, R. S. Kulkarni, A. Manjunath
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 511 to 518

Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore 560 065.

Abstract

Ten parents and their 45 F1's of chillies from a half diallel cross were evaluated for fruit yield and its components over three environments. Highly significant variation was observed due to genotypes and environments for aq the ten traits studied. The genotype x environment interactions were significant for all the characters except days to initiation of flowering. The genotypes Pant C-1, Arka lohit, RHRC 16-5 and X-235 were found to be good general combiners and 15 crosses have been identified as specific combiners for fruit yield and other related traits.

Keywords

Capsicum annum L., general combining ability, specific combining ability, genotype x environment interaction