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Estimates of General and Specific Combining Ability for Forage Yield in F 1 Hybrids of Forage Sorghum 1
Author(s) -
Blum A.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1968.0011183x000800030039x
Subject(s) - sorghum , forage , hybrid , biology , agronomy , yield (engineering) , grain yield , variance components , sorghum bicolor , sweet sorghum , mathematics , statistics , materials science , metallurgy
Forty‐two Fj forage sorghum hybrids, obtained by crossing 7 sorgo varieties (males) to 6 grain sorghum A‐lines (females), were studied under dryland conditions. Estimates for relative general and specifiic combining ability effects for forage yield were obtained. An analysis of variance components; indicated that general combining ability effect was 20‐Ji times greater than specific combining ability effect for forage yield. Variance component for general combining ability of male parents was 10.6 times greater than for female parents. Although some high relative estimates of specific combining ability were obtained in certain crosses, the results suggest a greater effect of sorgo varieties over grain sorghum A‐lines on variance between crosses.