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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Maize

2004

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Inheritance Of Grain Yield In A Half-Diallel Maize Population, Aydin Ünay, Cahi̇t Konak, Hüseyi̇n Başal Jan 2004

Inheritance Of Grain Yield In A Half-Diallel Maize Population, Aydin Ünay, Cahi̇t Konak, Hüseyi̇n Başal

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Inheritance of grain yield, heterosis and combining ability were investigated in maize populations obtained from half-diallel crossing among 9 inbred parental lines. General and specific combining ability effects were significantly different among parental lines. The grain yield was under the dominance gene effect. The parents W 552 and DNB were considered suitable according to their yield capacities and general combining ability effects. The midparent heterosis values ranged from 46.10% (H.96 x DNB) to 573.12% (ALKD 222 x A 632) whereas the useful heterosis values varied between -46.47% (A 619 x A 632) and 10.78% (N 7A x ALKD 90-1), and …