Estimates for Genetic Variance Components in Reciprocal Recurrent Selection in Populations Derived from Maize Single-Cross Hybrids

Table 2

Combined analysis of variance for plant height (PH cm/plant) to evaluate progenies of intra- and interpopulation half sibs from cycle 0 (C0) and cycle 3 (C3).

VF	DF	C0				C3
		Population 1		Population 2		Population 1		Population 2
		MS11	MS12	MS22	MS21	MS11	MS12	MS22	MS21
Environment (E)	1	231673.5*	195662.0**	132165.0*	145085.3*	8361.04^ns	1292.13^ns	8970.67^ns	542.94^ns
Progeny (P)	99	449.97**	474.68**	242.40^ns	518.69**	353.91**	446.42**	581.38**	563.51**
E × P	99	192.59^ns	230.10^ns	247.09^ns	249.18^ns	226.26^ns	245.25^ns	213.70^ns	279.21^ns
Error	342	152.56	212.92	231.85	295.41	251.21	228.99	281.68	253.07
CV (%)		6.27	7.05	7.59	8.32	8.94	7.36	8.64	7.70
Means		196.97	206.79	200.46	206.48	177.35	205.55	194.17	206.58

∗F test is significant at 5%.
**F test is significant at 1%.
^nsF test is nonsignificant.