Analysis of Direct and Indirect Selection and Indices in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Segregating Progeny

Table 2

Analysis of variance of different bread wheat traits studied.

SV	Bloc	Genotypes	Parents	F4	Parents versus F4	Error	CV (%)
df	2	28	8	19	1	56
CHL	8.6	19.0	9.5	23.8	3.6	8.6	6.6
HD	1.5	9.0	18.3	2.5	58.7	0.7	0.7
FLA	89.4	11.1	6.9	6.6	0.1	14.9	20.4
PH	9.1	86.3	103.0	80.0	72.6	16.6	6.3
SN	1183.1	11187.5	26092.4	2657.8	53994.5	5371.1	15.9
TKW	33.5	28.2	39.4	12.7	232.1	7.7	7.4
SW	117034.6	44873.6	74490.4	18248.8	313746.3	20259.8	20.9
GN	36.6	44.7	61.3	37.0	41.0	17.1	16.8
BIO	81189.5	131077.4	243142.1	43601.7	896559.2	45440.8	18.5
GY	34149.2	15727.9	26835.4	11096.5	56205.9	12677.8	26.8
HI	122.2	62.3	136.6	36.1	21.4	37	16.8

CHL: chlorophyll content (Spad), HD: heading date (days), FLA: flag leaf area (cm²), PH: plant height (cm), SN: number of spikes, TKW: 1000-kernel weight (g), SW: spikes weight (g m⁻²), GN: number of grains per spike, BIO: above ground biomass (g m⁻²), GY: grain yield (g m⁻²), HI: harvest index (%), and ns, , and : nonsignificant and significant effect at 0.05 and 0.01 probability.