The estimates of general combining ability effects suggested that among females GDM-4 and males IC-399819 EC-766060 were the best combiners for seed yield few other characters. specific revealed hybrids GM-2 x EC-766437 followed by RH-406 EC-766378 exhibited positive sca in desirable direction per plant. hybrid EC-766043 RH-749 EC-766495 significant negative days to 50 cent flowering GM-3 matur...

The multilocational studies were conducted to evaluate 21 hybrids of tomato in Pratapgarh(Uttar Pradesh), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) and Burdwan (West Bengal), India during August–February 2015–16 2016–17. Data on four quality traits viz., total soluble solids, titrable acidity, carotene content lycopene estimated. Combined analysis variance (ANOVA) revealed significant effects locations, genotyp...

Field pea (Pisum sativum L.) is a highly nutritious winter-season pulse crop. It used as food, feed, and fodder offers nutritional security to low-income people in developing countries. Different graphical approaches like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Genotype + × Environment (GGE) biplots were along with the conventional line tester identify efficient parents, combining ability effects di...

The aim of this study was to determine phenotypic and genotypic distances in parental lines of diallel population of sunflower, and to identify correlation between both distances with F1 performance, specific combining ability (SCA) and absolutely mid-parent heterosis. The morphological distance (Euclidean distance; EDs) and genetic distance (Jaccard`s distance; JD) among five sunflower parenta...

Downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola) and anthracnose (Sphaceloma ampelinum) are two of the major diseases of most grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cultivars grown in Thailand. Therefore, breeding grapevines for improved downy mildew and anthracnose resistance is crucial. Factorial crosses were made between three downy mildew and/or anthracnose resistant lines ('NY88.0517.01', 'NY65.0550.04', and 'NY...

Hybrid rice parental lines with better combining abilities provide an efficient tool to increase production. In the current study, twenty hybrid combinations were generated from five aromatic cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) and four restorer (three of them aromatic) using a line × tester mating design. The hybrids their evaluated under two water regimes: normal irrigation water-stress. Ten yield...

We evaluated the efficiency of the best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) and the influence of the use of similarity in state (SIS) and similarity by descent (SBD) in the prediction of untested maize hybrids. Nine inbred lines of maize were crossed using a randomized complete diallel method. These materials were genotyped with 48 microsatellite markers (SSR) associated with the QTL regions for g...

Genetic distances between seven oil sunflower inbred lines expressed in the variability of five morphological traits were analysed in terms of their effect on the specific combining ability (SCA) effects in these lines for yield component traits. The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and other related multidimensional methods were used to recognize the differences between genotypes wit...

Present investigation was conducted to estimate the per se performance, combining ability and heterosis for grain quality traits in rice using line × tester mating design. Analysis of variance with respect to crosses revealed significant differences for all the traits studied. GCA and SCA results revealed the predominance of SCA variance in relation to GCA variance for all the traits. For aroma...

In today’s turbulent environment, competitive pressures and market unpredictability have dramatically lashed business profits. Being agile is an essential ability for firms facing such an environment. However, coping with the hostile business environment requires not only the agility from individual firms but also the collaboration from their supply chain partners. Supply chain agility (SCA) th...