Table 3: General Combining Ability (GCA) effects for eleven horticultural traits in 6×6 half diallel population of chili.
Parents |
DFFl |
DFFr |
PHFF |
TFFW |
NFPP |
FL |
FW |
TDFW |
NSPF |
HSW |
FFYPP |
P1
|
0.26 |
-0.94 |
0.90* |
6.29** |
-7.84* |
1.40** |
0.07** |
0.98** |
5.58* |
0.00 |
23.65** |
P2
|
-0.99 |
0.72 |
0.79* |
-4.93** |
21.90** |
-0.02 |
-0.08** |
-0.24** |
4.17 |
-0.08** |
9.75 |
P3
|
1.22 |
3.64** |
0.31 |
-4.75** |
-0.27 |
-0.79** |
-0.03 |
-0.58** |
-4.62* |
0.04* |
-13.37 |
P4
|
0.81 |
-0.24 |
-1.77** |
-6.56** |
-7.98* |
-1.21** |
-0.08** |
-0.81** |
-13.28** |
0.08** |
-28.13** |
P5
|
2.39* |
2.18** |
0.54 |
-6.84** |
8.87* |
-1.10** |
-0.11** |
-0.63** |
-6.50* |
-0.03 |
-22.10* |
P6
|
-3.69** |
-5.36 |
-0.76* |
16.79** |
-14.68** |
1.73** |
0.23** |
1.29** |
14.66** |
-0.02 |
30.21** |
SE(gi) |
0.87 |
0.87 |
0.23 |
0.65 |
2.74 |
0.14 |
0.02 |
0.02 |
1.73 |
0.01 |
5.84 |
* and ** indicate significance at 5% and 1% levels respectively
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)