Research Article

Line × Tester Mating Design Analysis for Grain Yield and Yield Related Traits in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Table 3

Means of the measured characters for 9 bread wheat parents and their 20 F1 hybrids.

DHEPHTSLFTTKWNGGY

Lines
A901133.0efg66.2jk11.8hij7.8h23.9i55.1ab10.5i
A899137.3b69.6hijk11.5ij13.7abcdef32.7abcdefgh44.9cdef20.0abcdefgh
A1135132.7efg80.9bcdef13.5abcde15.0abcd32.8abcdefg44.4def21.7abcdefg
A1069132.3efg73.1efghij12.7efghij11.8bcdefgh32.4abcdefgh49.9bcdef18.8abcdefgh
AA137.7ab71.6fghijk14.0abcde8.8efgh26.1ghi60.0a13.7ghi

Testers
MD140.0a99.8a11.4j16.8ab39.2a26.3h17.3bcdefghi
Rmada132.7efg76.0efghi13.6abcde14.1abcd29.5abcdefgh47.6bcdef20.4abcdefgh
HD1220137.3b63.2k12.2fghij12.4bcdefgh27.3abcdefgh55.0ab18.8abcdefgh
Wifak132.7efg70.6ghijk12.8defghi8.4fgh32.8hi49.3bcdef13.5hi

Lines × testers
A901 × MD134.3def87.6bc13.2bcdefg14.7abcd32.1cdef42.6efg20.2abcdefgh
A901 × Rmada132.7efg75.2fghij13.5abcdef14.9abcd27.0hij51.8abcd20.6abcdefgh
A901 × HD1220134.7cde69.8hijk11.9ghij10.9cdefgh25.0j50.6bcdef14.6fghi
A901 × Wifak133.7defg67.1ijk11.9ghij8.3gh29.3fghij60.0a15.4efghi
A899 × MD137.0bc89.6b13.1cdefgh17.7a33.1bcde34.9gh20.4abcdefgh
A899 × Rmada132.0fg75.8efghi14.1abcd16.5ab29.7defghi49.3bcdef24.2abc
A899 × HD1220135.7bcd70.6ghijk11.8ghij13.9abcde29.4efghi50.2bcdef20.2abcdefgh
A899 × Wifak132.3efg78.0cdefgh14.0abcde18.2a29.5efghi50.5bcdef26.6a
A1135 × MD138.0ab82.2bcde11.6ij14.0abcde35.2bc34.7gh17.3bcdefghi
A1135 × Rmada132.0fg80.3bcdef14.1abc13.3abcdefg30.7defgh47.5bcdef19.4abcdefgh
A1135 × HD1220133.7defg74.5efghij14.0abcde15.1abcd32.0cdef47.8bcdef22.7abcde
A1135 × Wifak131.3g80.0cdefg14.5ab16.1abc31.4cdefg48.0bcdef24.3ab
A1069 × MD134.3def99.2a13.3bcdef15.1abcd36.8ab42.4fg23.6abcd
A1069 × Rmada132.0fg77.7defgh13.7abcde13.9abcde29.9defghi53.7abc22.2abcdef
A1069 × HD1220133.7defg74.0efghij13.4bcdef12.1bcdefgh29.0fghi50.2bcdef17.4bcdefghi
A1069 × Wifak132.0fg78.4cdefgh14.0abcde13.7abcde30.3defgh48.1bcdef19.7abcdefgh
AA × MD135.7bcd86.1bcd13.8abcde12.1bcdefgh33.6bcd51.5abcdef20.0abcdefgh
AA × Rmada134.0def77.5defgh14.8a10.5defgh29.7defghi52.2abcd16.2cdefghi
AA × HD1220137.0bc71.7fghijk13.9abcde11.1cdefgh27.8ghij52.1abcd15.7defghi
AA × Wifak134.0def76.5efghi13.6abcde10.8cdefgh30.1defghi51.6abcde16.6bcdefghi

Over all mean134.377.313.213.230.648.419.0
LSD0.051.96.91.02.22.96.63.0

DHE: number of days to heading, PHT: plant height (cm), SL: spike length (cm), FT: number of fertile tillers, TKW: thousand-kernel weight (g), NG: number of grains per spike, and GY: grain yield (g).
Means within each column followed by the same letter are not significantly different from each other based on the 0.05 probability level of LSD.