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Per Se performance of parents and hybrids in maize for grain yield characters

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Volume : 87
Issue: Jan-mar
Pages: 57 - 60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A00417
Published: June 23, 2023
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Abstract

per se performance of 90 hybrids that resulted from 10 parents crossed in a diallel fashion was studied for eight characters. Maximum grain yield per plant was recorded by the cross Prabhath 1 x. UMI 492. The cross which included UMI 760 and Prabhat 1 as parents showed signficant increase in grain yield, plant height, number of grain rows per cob, cob weight and starch content.

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https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A00417
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57 - 60
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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per se performance of 90 hybrids that resulted from 10 parents crossed in a diallel fashion was studied for eight characters. Maximum grain yield per plant was recorded by the cross Prabhath 1 x. UMI 492. The cross which included UMI 760 and Prabhat 1 as parents showed signficant increase in grain yield plant height number of grain rows per cob cob weight and starch content.
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