Combining ability along with heterosis was elucidated in the 21 F1 hybrid population of rice
derived from a 7× 7 diallel mating design. Furthermore, to formulate a strategy for marker …

Breeding hybrids with maximum heterosis requires efficient cross-pollination and an
improved male sterility system. Renewed efforts have been made to dissect the phenotypic …

Combining ability is a measure for selecting elite parents and predicting hybrid performance
in plant breeding. However, the genetic basis of combining ability remains unclear and a …

Diallel crosses have been widely used for analysis of general combining ability (GCA),
specific combining ability (SCA) and heterosis. In the present research, 12 lines were …

Artificial selection of high yield crops and better livestock is paramount importance in
breeding programs. Selection of elite parents with preferred traits from a phalanx of inbred …

Maize plant height related traits including plant height, ear height, and internode number are
tightly linked with biomass, planting density, and grain yield in the field. Previous studies …

ABSTRACT More than 2.0 million-hectare area was affected by flash floods of various
grades and reduced the average yield in Bangladesh by 5%. It involves introgression of …

Experiment was conducted to study combining ability and heterosis for major yield traits
namely days to 50% flowering (DF50), growth duration (GD), plant height (PH), effective …

Experiment was conducted to study heterosis for different morphological traits ie productive
tillers per plant, primary branches per panicle, seeds per panicle, seed weight per panicle …

ABSTRACT A ten–parent diallel experiment was carried out at the Teaching and Research
Farms of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria, to estimate combining ability …