Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding Laboratory Department of Botany, Lucknow University, Lucknow
Five selections of fenugreek were crossed to get 20 all possible combinations. Parents, Ft and F2 hybrids, were grown in a randomized block design. Data was recorded on plant height, days to flower, days to maturity, nodes of mainshoot. inter-nodal length, seeds per pod and yield per plant. Combining ability analysis indicated significant GCA variance for all the characters and significant SCA variance for some of the characters. This indicates that both additive and non-additive gene effects are important. However, the additive gene effects were prevalent. Ceitain good specific combinations were also found. And also, a few crosses exhibited the significant reciprocal effects, which may be due to the different geographical origin of these selections.
