Table 8: Hayman’s Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) 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
a 5 51.03** 88.23** 12.56** 1168.03** 2290.93** 22.75** 0.20** 12.03** 1194.11** 0.03** 8283.41**
b 15 149.66** 215.24** 32.57** 462.29** 2608.89** 10.90** 0.11** 6.10** 1565.41** 0.06** 11286.90**
b1 1 11.42 212.70** 12.24** 0.93 34.55 5.72** 0.01 1.03** 592.03** 0.01* 699.62
b2 5 35.58** 24.62* 3.25** 11.09* 82.80 1.86** 0.01 2.86** 84.28* 0.02** 667.65
b3 9 228.39** 321.43** 51.12** 764.23** 4298.31** 16.49** 0.18** 8.46** 2496.41** 0.09** 18362.84**
Error 40 7.25 7.32 0.51 4.06 72.09 0.18 0.00 0.00 28.86 0.00 327.83

* and ** indicate significance at 5% and 1% levels respectively, df – Degrees of freedom, a – Additive effect, b – Non-additive effect
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)