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LINE X TESTER ANALYSIS OF POD YIELD AND OTHER CHARACTERS IN GROUNDNUT (Arachis hypogaea L.)

Volume : 70
Issue: Oct-oct
Pages: 638 - 643
Published: September 28, 2023
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Abstract


A line x tester analysis involving five females and seven males along with their 35 Fl crosses was studied in groundnut (A hypogaea L.) for combining ability. Among females AK 12-24 was observed to be the best general combiner for days to first flowering, M 145 for shelling per cent and M 13 for pod yield, kemel weight, pod length and pod width Among males U4-4-32 was the best general combiner for pod yield, kernel weight and the days to first flowering Fifteen crosses exhibited high positive sca effects for pod yield of which M 13 x Godjah 61, M 13 x U4-4-32, M 13 x Florida Runner and AK12-24 x Florida Runner involed good x good general combining parents. Both additive and non-additive genetic effects control the inheri- tance of almost all the characters, the latter type being more important for pod yield, kernel weight and shelling per cent.

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638 - 643
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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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