The relative efficiency of the biparental mating system and selfing series was evaluated in terms of response to selection for grain yield following phenotypic and geno-phenotypic selection procedures in two crosses of wheat. The variability and the response to selection for grain yield was more under biparental mating system than under selfing series. The realized response due to the first cycle of selection and predicted response due to second cycle of selection indicated that geno-phenotypic procedure of selection was more efficient than phenotypic selection procedure. An index comprising grain yield, tiller number and biological yield could be used for selecting high yielding genotypes.
Phenotypic and Geno-phenotypic Selection, Predicted and Realized Response, Sib-mating/Biparental Mating
