In the present study, an overall appraisal of GCA effects revealed that RH0735 and BPR349-9 in normal environment and RH0116 and RH0555A in late sown environment were good general combiner for majority of the characters. High GCA effects are related to additive gene effects or additive x additive interaction which represent the fixable genetic component of variation. Hence these parents could be efficiently used for exploiting seed yield. For seed yield the crosses RH8814 x RH0555A, RH0644 x BPR543- 3 and BPR349-9 x RH0644 in timely sown condition and crosses RH0555A x RH0644, RH0735 x RH0116 and BPR349-9 x RH0644 were identified as promising on the basis of their high per se performance and with high significant SCA effects. |
