Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CS Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
*Dept. of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, B.H.U. Varanasi-221005.
**Dept. of Horticulture Chauras Campus, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar.
A heterozygous individual resulting from the cross of two unlike parents is a hybrid which is usually vigorous. This increased vigour is often referred as hybrid vigour or heterosis. In general considerable amount of heterosis over superior parent was observed for almost all the characters. Forty crosses showed positive and significant heterosis for seed yield per plant and 13 crosses for fibre yield per plot while nine crosses showed heterosis in both seed yield per plant and fibre yield per plot.
Heterosis, Seed yield, Fibre yield
