Heterosis and inbreeding depression for yield and yield components in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)

The results of the experiment on the magnitude of heterosis and inbreeding depression in 38 genotypes (15 F1s, their 15 F2s and 8 parents) foryield and its attributes revealed highly significant variations for all the genotypes and for all the characters studied. Two hybrids for earlinessand four hy...

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Main Author: D.Shivani, Ch. Sreelakshmi and C.V. Sameer Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Society of Plant Breeders 2010-12-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding
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Online Access:http://sites.google.com/site/ejpb10/vol-1-6/Vol-1-6-1492-1494.pdf?attredirects=0