Heritability and Genetic Advance among Chili Pepper Genotypes for Heat Tolerance and Morphophysiological Characteristics

Table 4

Analysis of variance for 11 characters for the 36 Capsicum spp.

Traits	Genotype (DF = 35)	Error (DF = 70)	CV (%)
PLH6WK	200.00^*	113.50	24.09
PLHH	478.23^**	102.28	14.55
Days to flowering	19.90ns	16.24	6.31
Disease incidence	524.02^*	318.52	49.07
Chlorophyll content	5.56ns	5.99	37.23
Photosynthesis rate	37.97^**	0.0016	0.305
Fruit length	18.64^**	2.73	14.26
Fruit weight	161.95^**	3.84	20.45
Number of fruits	6456.66^**	1385.09	46.42
Yield	146873^**	50594.56	49.59
Membrane stability	1622.85^**	112.73	16.43
SHUs	4945258353.7^**	7448153.84	7.30

Significant at 5%, highly significant at 1%, ns = not significant, PLHH: plant height at harvest, PLH6WK: plant height at 6 weeks after transplanting, SHUs = Scoville heat units.