Research Article

Combining Ability of Pod Yield and Related Traits of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) under Salinity Stress

Table 6

Estimates of gca effects of parental lines in a diallel population for pod yield and related traits during flowering till harvest stages under 8 dS/m salinity.

ParentsPlant height ++Pod number ++Pod yield

“Dacca-1”2.63**0.38**0.15**
“Zhingabadam”1.42*−0.41**−0.06*
M6/15/70-19 −2.50**−0.11**0.09**
“Binachinabadam-1”−0.04−0.14**−0.19**
M6/25/64-82 −0.770.05−0.17**
“Binachinabadam-2”−0.740.23**0.17**
SE0.340.020.02

** and * indicate significance at and , respectively; ++ indicates square-root transformed data used.