TATISTICAL methods for the analysis of continuous variation have been S developed using second degree statistics such as variance and covariance and successfully applied to crosses between two inbred lines. These have allowed the recognition of the more familiar phenomena associated with Mendelian genetics although they appear in the analyses in a new and less obvious form (MATHER 1949; BATEMAN...

The term diallel is a Greek word and implies all possible crosses among a collection of male and female animals. Hayman (1954a, 1954b) defined diallel cross as the set of all possible crosses between several genotypes, which may be individuals, clones, homozygous lines, etc. Diallel cross is most balanced and systematic experiment to examine continuous variation. The genetic information related...

T H E diallel cross method of investigating the genetical properties of a group of homozygous lines has recently received much attention. HULL (1945) has considered some aspects of the method. A short summary of a more general approach by JINKS and HAYMAN (1953) and its application to several published sets of maize data has also appeared. In another paper JINKS (1954) has described experiments...

This paper presents a step-by-step approach in statistical and genetic analysis applied in diallel mating design using Griffing’s experimental Method II, Model II. A two-step approach is developed and implemented in order to assist the researchers in statistical and genetic analysis of diallel crossing using Griffing’s experimental Method II, Model II. The approach is exemplified on the corolla...

This study was conducted to determine the combining ability and heritability of rice grain quality traits. Some grain quality traits such as grain length, grain width, milled grain length, milled grain width, length to width ratio, milled rice recovery, head rice recovery, amylose and gel consistency were analyzed using a full diallel mating design in Malaysian rice varieties. This study was co...

Abstract Oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) is sensitive to heat stress during the reproductive stage, but it not clear whether male and female organs differ in their sensitivity stress. In this study, full diallel crossing experiments were conducted among four genotypes of B. under control, moderate high conditions for five days immediately before two after crossing. General combining ability (...

Twenty eight F1 hybrids developed during summer, 2010 by crossing 8 diverse parents in all possible combinations without reciprocals were evaluated for diallel analysis for genetic parameters and graphic representation for yield and yield attributing traits during summer 2011 at College of Horticulture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, India. The validity of the assumptions of diallel analysis was con...