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Line x Tester Analysis of Combining Ability in Castor, Ricinus communis L.

Volume : 64
Issue: Aug-aug
Pages: 537 - 541
Published: October 11, 2023
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Abstract


An attempt has been made to assess the combining ability of castor inbred lines involving two pollen parents and a set of twelve exotic and Indian varieties as female parents, adopting line x tester analysis technique. The study revealed that the genetic variability is not predominantly additive for yield, number of branches, number of racemes. length of main raceme, length of pistillate region of raceme and total number of capsules. A large part of total genetic variation for seed yield and its components was associated with a significant general combining ability effect while specific combining ability had small effects on yield.

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537 - 541
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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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