melon is an economically important crop and iran is considered as its diversity center. to investigate gene action, heritability and number of effective factors for yield and related traits, six generations, namely: p1, p2, f1, f2, bc1, and bc2 of two crosses of mirpanji × tashkandi and mirpanji × abasali were produced and evaluated in the spring of 2008, applyig a complete block design of thre...

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...