Department of Vegetable Crops, Landscaping and Floriculture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
In the present investigation the nature and magnitude of combining ability effects in twenty crosses of watermelog involving to tester parents with 10 pollinators were studied in respect of yield and its components alongwith the quality. The variance due to general combining ability was higher than that for specific combining ability of males and females for all the characters. The crosses exhibiting high specific combining ability for yield also had high or average combining ability for yield components. The crosses showing high specific combining ability involved at least one high general combining parents and in no case low X low combiners was at the top. The crosses exhibiting high specific combining ability for yield also had high or average combining ability for one out of the two yield components.
