An experiment was carried out with North Carolina Mating Design II (NC II) derived F1 progenies along parents to know nature of gene action in regulating early maturity, yield and contributing traits. The principal objective this research identify best specific cross combinations based on combining ability analysis estimation heritability. Hybrids their were arranged a 8 by partially balanced l...

Two F2 populations segregating for biomass yield and forage quality traits were developed from two separate crosses of tropically adapted maize inbred lines. The parental, F1 generations both evaluated to estimate broad sense heritability, genetic advance correlations these suggest the best as selection criteria towards breeding with high quality.In Cross 1, trait highest broad-sense heritabili...

the mode of agronomic traits inheritance was investigated in safflower (carthamus tinctorius l.) in drought stress as a new report. five generation including p1, p2, f1, f2 and f3 that derived from the cross of il.111 (drought sensitive) ×mex.22-191 (drought tolerance) were used in a randomized complete block design with two replications. generation mean analysis was used to estimate genetic pa...

Fifty-one genotypes of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) or closely related germplasm were evaluated in a pot experiment to examine genetic variation in transpiration efficiency. Significant variation in whole plant transpiration efficiency was observed, with the difference between lowest and highest genotypes being about 40% of the mean. Leaf gas exchange measurements were made across a wide range of...

The popular Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis (GCTA) software uses the random-effects models for estimating the narrow-sense heritability based on GWAS data of unrelated individuals without knowing and identifying the causal loci. Many methods have since extended this approach to various situations. However, since the proportion of causal loci among the variants is typically very small and GCT...

Although epistasis is common in gene systems that determine quantitative traits, it is usually not possible to estimate the epistatic components of genotypic variance because experiments in breeding programs include only one type of progeny. As the study of this phenomenon is complex, there is a lack of theoretical knowledge on the contribution of the epistatic variances when predicting gains f...

inheritance of several yield-based drought resistance indices was studied by a halfdiallel method using seven winter wheat varieties. the parental lines were such chosen as to represent a broad range of drought stress resistance. the experiment was conducted in a split-plot design at the research farm, faculty of agriculture, zanjan university, iran, in 1998. irrigated vs. rainfed regimes w...

Lycopene is a red pigment in tomato with purported antioxidant properties. As the amount of lycopene has been reported to differ in different colored tomatoes or even absent in non-red tomatoes, the objective of this study was to investigate the inheritance of lycopene content and the color parameters of hybrids using a 10 parent diallel excluding reciprocals. Parents differed in general combin...

1 Efforts to identify loci underlying complex traits generally assume that most genetic variance is 2 additive. Here, we examined the genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana root length and found that the 3 narrow-sense heritability for this trait was statistically zero. This low additive genetic variance 4 likely explains why no associations to root length could be found using standard additive-model...