International Journal of Agronomy

Research Article

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

Table 3

Genetic and nongenetic parameters of different bread wheat traits studied.


Traits					(SK)	(FH)	(%)

Chl	3.36	2.00	1.35	40.31	28.55	30.13	2.64	0.47
HD	3.01	0.25	2.76	91.80	16.69	34.32	1.31	1.93
FLA	3.68	4.98	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
PH	28.78	5.52	23.26	80.82	27.27	27.27	7.43	1.19
SN	3729.17	1790.37	1938.79	52.00	0.00	0.00	9.59	0.60
TKW	9.41	2.55	6.86	72.90	31.64	25.99	6.98	0.95
SW	14957.91	6753.25	8204.67	54.85	8.66	10.70	13.19	0.64
GN	14.67	5.63	9.04	61.64	16.70	7.14	12.28	0.73
BIO	43692.45	15146.93	28545.52	65.33	3.37	5.93	14.48	0.79
GY	5242.64	4225.92	1016.71	19.39	10.13	12.31	7.58	0.28
HI	20.76	12.31	8.45	40.67	14.10	14.97	8.03	0.48

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 (%), : broad-sense heritability, (SK): narrow-sense heritability according to Smith and Kinman [16], and (FH): narrow-sense heritability according to Frey and Horner [17].