Line × Tester Mating Design Analysis for Grain Yield and Yield Related Traits in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Table 5
Specific combining ability (sij) effects for characters in bread wheat hybrids.
Crosses
DHE
PHT
SL
FT
TKW
NG
GY
A901 × MD
−2.05*
3.5
1.44**
2.17
0.32
−2.05
3.1
A901 × Rmada
0.45
2.32
0.36
3.74*
−0.33
−2.81
3.39
A901 × HD1220
−0.15
2.07
−0.49
−0.41
−2.14*
−3.51
−2
A901 × Wifak
1.75
−7.89**
−1.31**
−5.50**
2.14*
8.36**
−4.5
A899 × MD
1.32
1.15
0.41
0.09
−1.33
−6.11*
−4.31
A899 × Rmada
−1.17
−2.14
0.31
−0.34
0.74
0.94
1
A899 × HD1220
0.72
−2.17
−1.50**
−2.5
1.32
3.5
−1.35
A899 × Wifak
−0.87
3.17
0.77
2.76
−0.74
1.68
4.67
A1135 × MD
3.57**
−11.14**
−2.30**
−2.57
−1.11
−3.84
3.7
A1135 × Rmada
−0.42
3.56
−0.06
−2.2
−0.64
0.9
1.22
A1135 × HD1220
−1.52
2.58
−1.26
2.26
2.44
2.39
−2.43
A1135 × Wifak
−1.62
5
−1.11
2.5
−0.69
0.55
−2.49
A1069 × MD
−0.8
9.79**
0.23
0.52
2.56*
1.59
6.1
A1069 × Rmada
0.7
−4.97
−0.82*
−0.02
−0.65
4.04
1.37
A1069 × HD1220
−0.4
−2.81
0.29
−0.87
−0.8
−0.16
−3.83
A1069 × Wifak
0.5
−2.01
0.29
0.38
−1.11
−5.47*
−3.64
AA × MD
−2.05*
−3.30**
0.22
−0.2
−0.45
10.41**
3.62
AA × Rmada
0.45
1.23
0.2
−1.18
0.88
−3.08
−2.3
AA × HD1220
1.35
0.34
0.44
1.52
−0.82
−2.21
0.49
AA × Wifak
0.25
1.73
−0.86*
−0.13
0.39
−5.12
−1.8
Se (sij)
0.77
2.84
0.39
2.84
1.06
2.58
2.34
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, GY: grain yield (g), se (sij): standard error for SCA effects for crosses, ns, and * and **: non-significant and significant effect at 0.05 and 0.01 probability.
