INTERACTION, HETEROSIS AND DIALLEL CROSSES

Partial Diallel Crosses

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...

The Theory and Analysis of Diallel Crosses.

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...

estimate of heterosis and combining ability in ranian melon using diallel crosses analysis

in order to estimate heritability, heterosis, general and specific combining ability and relationships between them in traits of fruit number per plant, days to the first fruit harvest, yield per plant, average fruit weight and rind thickness, seven local populations of iranian melon (‘tashkandi’, ‘khatouni’, ‘garmak’, ‘aran1’, ‘mirpanji’, ‘suski-e-sabz’ and ‘golpaygan’) were crossed using a co...

Breed and Heterosis Utilization in Rotational and Composite Crosses

Optimal Designs for Best Linear Unbiased Prediction in Diallel Crosses

Most of the available results on optimal block designs for diallel crosses are based on standard linear model assumptions where the general combining ability effects are taken as fixed. In many practical situations, this assumption may not be tenable since often one studies only a sample of inbred lines from a possibly large (hypothetical) population. Recently Ghosh and Das (2003) proposed a ra...