International Journal of Agronomy

Research Article

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

Table 7

Differences of the F₄ selected lines relatively to the standard check Hidhab for the measured traits.


Traits	F₄ selected lines mean	Hidhab	Difference	Difference in % of Hidhab	LSD0.05

Chl	42.26	43.30	−1.05	−2.41	4.80
HD	126.57	129.67	−3.10	−2.39	1.40
FLA	19.15	19.40	−0.24	−1.26	6.31
PH	68.67	62.33	6.33	10.16	6.67
SN	615.67	463.33	152.33	32.88	119.67
TKW	39.97	38.33	1.63	4.26	4.53
SW	1147.67	823.33	324.33	39.39	235.17
GN	31.57	24.83	6.75	27.18	6.75
BIO	1833.67	1376.67	457.00	33.20	353.15
GY	758.13	441.33	316.80	71.78	185.10
HI	41.78	32.23	9.55	29.63	9.94

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), and HI: harvest index (%). effect at 0.05 probability.