Yassien,, H., Abd El-Mohsen, M. (2000). COMBINING ABILITY ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY AND HETEROSIS IN SOYBEAN. Journal of Plant Production, 25(6), 3177-3186. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2000.259113
H. E. Yassien,; M. A. Abd El-Mohsen. "COMBINING ABILITY ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY AND HETEROSIS IN SOYBEAN". Journal of Plant Production, 25, 6, 2000, 3177-3186. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2000.259113
Yassien,, H., Abd El-Mohsen, M. (2000). 'COMBINING ABILITY ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY AND HETEROSIS IN SOYBEAN', Journal of Plant Production, 25(6), pp. 3177-3186. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2000.259113
Yassien,, H., Abd El-Mohsen, M. COMBINING ABILITY ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY AND HETEROSIS IN SOYBEAN. Journal of Plant Production, 2000; 25(6): 3177-3186. doi: 10.21608/jpp.2000.259113
COMBINING ABILITY ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY AND HETEROSIS IN SOYBEAN
1Dept. of Agronomy Fac. of Agric. Al-Azhar Univ. Egypt.
2Food Legumes Section, Field Crop Res., ARC, Egypt.
Abstract
Combining ability analysis , heritability and heterosis were studied for earliness, as well as maturity , yield and some of its components in five diverse soybean (Glycine max “L.” Merril) genotypes, which were crossed in a dillel mating pattern. Results revealed significant differences among the 25 genotypes, for all, the studied traits. General and specific combining abilities were also significant except for number of seeds/pod and 100-seed weight in g.c.a., indicating the importance of both additive and non-additive gene effects. The genotype MBB 80-133 was positively a high general combiner for all attributes except number of days to flowering and maturity. It was the best parent for seed yield /plot. The crosses (MBB 80-133 X H15 L4), (MBB 80-133 X H2L24) and (H2L24 X L35) were found to exhibit high positive specific combining ability effects for number of seeds/pod, seed filling period and seed yield/plot, in the same order. For seed yield/plot the cross (H2L24 X L35) showed positive significant reciprocal effect. The highest value for broad sense heritability was found for number of days to maturity . The mid-parent and better parent heterosis were significant for all the characters. For seed yield/plot, most of the crosses gave more yield than their mid-parent values. The cross (MBB 80-133 X H2L24) showed the highest heterosis over mid and better parents 47.99 and 29.12% , respectively.