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STUDIES ON COMBINING ABILITY IN SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS. L)

Volume : 77
Issue: Sep-dec
Pages: 408 - 411
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


Combining ability studies in sunflower revealed that additive gene action was predominant for all the characters except 100 seed weight and oil content. Among the female parents, EC 85820 and EC 69874 were the best general combiners for earliness, K 74 for seed yield and EC 93617 for oil content. The tester parents K 1 and Co 1 were the best general combiners for seed yield and oil content respectively. The best cross combinations for seed yield were EC 75272 x K 2 and Kanpur Selection x Co 1, while for oil content it was EC 93617 x Co 1. In general there was no correspondence between mean performance and sca effects of the crosses.

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408 - 411
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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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Sunflower Combining ability.
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