Table 1: Simple Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for eleven horticultural traits in a 6×6 half diallel population of chili.

Source of Variation df Mean Sum
of Square
DFFl DFFr PHFF TFFW NFPP FL FW TDFW NSPF HSW FFYPP
Replication 2 47.25 40.06 5.95* 4.52 33.34 1.75* 0.01 0.00 135.75 0.01 87.51
Genotype 20 76.20** 124.92** 23.33** 613.89** 2091.80** 12.32** 0.12** 7.52** 1256.28** 0.04** 8525.34**
Parents 5 116.67** 235.03** 20.40** 911.93** 1880.44** 13.64** 0.23** 7.23** 1376.89** 0.09** 5195.01**
F1 14 65.09** 55.45* 23.79** 551.12** 2310.35** 11.68** 0.09** 7.96** 1194.20** 0.02** 10195.19**
Parents vs. F1 1 29.36 546.93** 31.48** 2.39 88.84 14.70** 0.02** 2.65** 1522.36** 0.02 1799.02
Error 40 21.75 21.96 1.52 12.17 216.27 0.54 0.01 0.01 86.57 0.00 983.48

* and ** indicate significance at 5% and 1% levels respectively, df – Degrees of freedom
DFFl – Days to first flowering, DFFr – Days to first fruiting, PHFF – Plant height at first fruiting (cm), TFFW – Ten fresh fruit weight (g), NFPP – Number of fruits per plant, FL – Fruit length (cm), FW – Fruit width (cm), TDFW – Ten dry fruit weight (g), NSPF – Number of seeds per fruit, HSW – Hundred seed weight (g), FFYPP – Fresh fruit yield per plant (g)