Agricultural Science Digest
Year : 2000, Volume : 20, Issue : 2
First page : ( 71) Last page : ( 74)
Print ISSN : 0253-150X.

Heterosis in chickpea (C. arietinum L.)

Jeena A.S., Arora P.P.

Department of Genetics and Plant Breeoing, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263 145, India

Abstract

Twenty-four F₁'s, obtained from line X tester mating of eight lines and three testers were evaluated for yield and its components. The heterosis over mid-parent and over better parcnt was estimated for all the traits. Maximum mid-parental heterosis for seed yield was recorded by ICCL 87322 X Avrodhi cross while maximum heterobeltiosis for yield given by ICCV2 x Uday cross. It was also revealed that crosses having high mean performance always exhibited high heterosis in desired direction for almost all characters except for pods/plant.

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