Table 2: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) of combining ability for eleven horticultural traits in 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
GCA 5 36.06** 77.13** 8.89** 733.23** 1438.17** 13.18** 0.14** 6.51** 805.46** 0.02** 4840.63**
SCA 15 21.84** 29.81** 7.41** 28.43** 450.30** 1.08** 0.01** 1.17** 289.86** 0.01** 2175.50**
Error 40 7.25 7.32 0.51 4.06 72.09 0.18 0.00 0.00 28.86 0.00 327.83
Components
σ2g 1.78 5.92 0.18 88.10 123.48 1.51 0.02 0.67 64.45 0.00 333.14
σ2s 14.59 22.49 6.91 24.37 378.21 0.90 0.01 1.17 261.00 0.01 1847.67
σ2g/σ2s 0.12 0.26 0.03 3.61 0.33 1.68 2.98 0.57 0.25 0.24 0.18

* and ** indicate significance at 5% and 1% levels respectively, df – Degrees of freedom
σ2g – General combining ability variance, σ2s – Specific combining ability variance
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)