1 Pulses Section, Department of Plant Breeding, CCS, HAU, Hisar.
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sonepat, Haryana.
CCS, Haryana Agricultural University, Regional Research Station, Karnal-132001, India
Generation mean analysis involving six basic generations each of the 3 crosses of kabuli gram (Cicer arietinum L.) was used to elucidate the inheritance of plant height, primary and secondary branches, pods per plant, seeds per pod, seed yield and 100-seed weight. Relative magnitude of additive gene effects (d) and additive x dominance (j) was, in general more than the dominance effect and additive x additive (i) and dominance x dominance (I) effect was present in majority of crosses for different characters under study. The detection of both fixable and non-fixable gene action and of duplicate epistasis implies the use of bi-parental approach/inter-mating in early segregating generations.
