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

Table 7

Estimate of broad sense heritability, genotypic, and phenotypic coefficients of variance, relative differences between GCV and PCV, and genetic advance for ten traits in 36 Capsicum spp.

Traits	(%)	(%)	(%)	GCV (%)	PCV (%)	RD	GA (%)
PLH6WK	20.25	28.83	142.34	12.14	26.99	55.02	11.24
PLHH	55.06	125.32	227.59	16.1	21.7	25.81	17.11
DF	6.99	1.22	17.46	1.73	6.54	73.55	0.94
DI	17.7	68.50	387.02	22.76	54.09	57.92	19.72
CPL	2.56	−0.15	5.85	5.89	36.56	83.98	1.94
PHOTO	100	12.66	12.66	26.77	26.77	0	55
FL	66	5.30	8.03	19.88	24.47	18.76	33.27
FW	93.21	52.70	56.54	75.78	78.49	28.29	150.71
NF	54.96	1690.50	3075.60	51.28	69.17	25.86	78.31
	38.81	32092.80	82687.40	39.5	63.4	37.7	50.69
CMT	81.7	503.37	616.1	34.72	38.41	5.71	64.64

PLH6WK: plant height at 6 weeks; PLHH: plant height at harvest; DF: days to flowering; DI: disease incidence; CPL: chlorophyll content, PHOTO: photosynthesis rate; FL: fruit length; FW: fruit weight; NF: number of fruits; CMT: cell membrane thermostability; : heritability; : genotypic variance; : phenotypic variance; : yield; PCV: phenotypic coefficients of variance; GCV: genotypic coefficients of variance; RD: relative difference between GCV and PCV; GA: genetic advance.