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...

LTHOUGH it is a matter of importance both theoretically and practically, A little is known about the constancy under different environmental conditions of the genetic components of continuous variation. This is not surprising, for study of the effects of environment upon the various genetic parameters required to specify continuous variation could not proceed until the parameters themselves wer...

Diallel crosses have been used in genetic research to determine the inheritance of important traits among a set of genotypes and to identify superior parents for hybrid or cultivar development. Conventional diallel analysis is limited to partitioning the total variation of the data into general combining ability (GCA) of each genotype and specific combining ability (SCA) of each cross. In this ...

A set of crosses produced by involving 'n' lines in all possible combinations is designated as diallel cross and the analysis of such crosses is known as diallel analysis. Such an analysis provides information on (i) the nature and amount of genetic parameters and (ii) general and specific combining ability of parents and their crosses, respectively. The two main approaches being followed for d...

Diallel mating is a frequently used design for estimating the additive and dominance genetic (polygenic) effects involved in quantitative traits observed in the half- and full-sib progenies generated in plant breeding programmes. Gibbs sampling has been used for making statistical inferences for a mixed-inheritance model (MIM) that includes both major genes and polygenes. However, using this ap...

Welcome to the “BayesDiallel” R-package: software designed to provide parameter confidence measures for the many possible interpreative models of phenotypes generated by a diallel experiment1. This package provides a mostly-automated method for converting diallel phenotype measurements to Bayesian Gibbs-sampled model fits of the data, generating posterior-confidence measures and prediction plot...

The classic diallel takes a set of parents and produces offspring from all possible mating pairs. Phenotype values among the offspring can then be related back to their respective parentage. When the parents are diploid, sexed, and inbred, the diallel can characterize aggregate effects of genetic background on a phenotype, revealing effects of strain dosage, heterosis, parent of origin, epistas...

To evaluate superior hybrid combinations, biometric techniques based on the quantification of heterosis as in the diallel analyses and predictive procedures are commonly being used. Diallel analyses have the disadvantage of requiring the evaluation of each parent in all possible combinations, which may be impossible in the case of studies involving many parents. The predictive methods which dis...

A diallel cross is a set of all possible matings between several genotypes, which may be individuals, clones, homozygous lines, etc. Such crosses are used to estimate general and specific combining abilities of lines and crosses respectively. For ‘n’ inbreed lines, the possible F1’s are n(n–1)/2, which are to be tested in a suitably replicated randomized design. With facilities available for te...