partial diallel design can be used to investigate the general and specific combining ability, and heterosis. combining ability and heterosis were studied in a 6×6 partial diallel cross to see the nature of gene action for fruit quality indices in cucumber (cucumis sativus l.) during 2007 to 2009. analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among all the f1 hybrid means and thei...

the objective of this research was to estimate the genetic parameters and trend of somatic cell count in holstein cows of iran using test day records. the phenotypic the used data consisted of were consisting of 407167 first lactation test day records the which were collected by the center of animal breeding and livestock production improvement center of iran during 2009 to 2013. somatic cell c...

Genotype-environment interactions may be a potent force maintaining genetic variation in quantitative traits in natural populations. This is shown by a simple model of additive polygenic inheritance in which the additive contributions of alleles vary with the environment. Under simplifying symmetry assumptions, the model implies that the variance of the phenotypes produced across environments b...

We determine the contribution of composite additive, dominance, and epistatic effects to the genetic divergence of photoperiodic response along latitudinal, altitudinal, and longitudinal gradients in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. Joint scaling tests of crosses between populations showed widespread epistasis as well as additive and dominance differences among populations. There w...

A field experiment was conducted in the experimental field of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department, Sher-e Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh to study variability in 10 F4 lines obtained through intervarietal crosses along with 8 released varieties of Brassica rapa. Significant variation was observed among all the genotypes for all the characters studied. Considering genetic pa...

in order to study of combining ability and heterosis in cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.), six hopeful genotypes were crossed in a half-diallel scheme at gonbad research station. fifteen f1 hybrids along with six parents were grown in randomized complete block design with 3 replications, in 2004. combining ability estimates were calculated according to method 2, model 1 of griffing (1956a,b). rela...

Abstract Determination of gene effects and combining abilities is a critical stage in maize hybrid breeding. In the present study, 20 S6 lines as female and three S6 inbred lines (K18, K19 and K1264/5-1) as tester were crossed and the resulting  test cross progenies were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2008. During the growing period, several agronomi...

The underlying determination of phenotypic variability and covariability is described for 14 traits that define the morphological size and shape of the mature mouse mandible. Variability is partitioned into components due to direct additive and dominance genetic effects, indirect maternal additive genetic effects, genetic covariance between direct additive and indirect maternal additive effects...