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COMBINING ABILITY FOR YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS IN RICE (Oryza sativa L.)

Volume : 75
Issue: Mar-apr
Pages: 99 - 104
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


The combining ability for yield and yield attributes was studied using 7x7 diallel The results revealed the existence of GCA variance in greater magnitude than SCA vari- ance for all the characters studied indicating the scope for improvement by exploiting the available additive components. Among parents IR 8 was the best combiner for all the traits Cult. 340 and ADT 3 for earliness and grain weight, Co. 37 for yield and IR 20 for number of grains per panicle could be the other parents.

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99 - 104
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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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