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Line × tester Study in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) for Important Biochemical and Morphological Traits

Version 1 : Received: 6 January 2022 / Approved: 10 January 2022 / Online: 10 January 2022 (11:30:43 CET)

How to cite: Kumar, A.; Singh, L.; Kaushik, P. Line × tester Study in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) for Important Biochemical and Morphological Traits. Preprints 2022, 2022010101. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0101.v1 Kumar, A.; Singh, L.; Kaushik, P. Line × tester Study in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) for Important Biochemical and Morphological Traits. Preprints 2022, 2022010101. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0101.v1

Abstract

: Using line × tester analysis, the current research analyses parental genotypes and their combinations in normal conditions and identifies the genes influencing yield characteristics. In the present study, 15 diverse genotypes, including 10 lines, 5 testers, and 50 F1s hybrids, were evaluated for 13 morphological and 2 biochemical traits. A suitable location was taken to study the effect of 15 characters. The results exposed that ability mean squares were significant for all studied additive and non-additive components. In this direction, the general combining ability of PBW-343, DBW-39, K-402, K-1317, KRL-210, and K-68 were higher than the remaining parents. For morphological traits like yield, the top five crosses were described based on SCA effects, namely, HD-3086 × HD-3171, K-402 × K-9107, K-1317 × K-9107, HD-2967 × K-0307 and K-402 × K-68 in F1 generation. In addition, the high value of heritability was estimated for plant height (77.32%), spike length (32.26%), biological yield/plant (59.52%), and grain yield/plant (68.76%). However, the moderate values of heritability were estimated for days to maturity (22.78%) and phenol color reaction (18.00%). The higher genetic advance was not found for recorded characters; however, a moderate genetic advance was recorded for grain yield per plant (13.15%) and harvest index (11.72%). High heritability coupled with moderate genetic advance was recorded for two characters grain yield per plant and harvest index in F1 and F2 generations.

Keywords

Bread wheat; general combining ability; specific combining ability; heritability; genetic advance

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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