GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COMBINING ABILITY OF TROPICAL MAIZE GERMPLASM

GENERAL AND SPECIFIC COMBINING ABILITY OF TROPICAL MAIZE GERMPLASM

Eight tropical maize populations were crossed in a diallel system. Parent and their 28 crosses were evaluated for grain yield in two plantations in 2006. The objective was to estimate the general combining ability (GCA) of the parental populations and the specific combining ability (SCA) of the cros...

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Main Authors: Pedro Guillen de la Cruz, Efraín De La Cruz Lázaro, Guillermo Castañon Najera, Rodolfo Osorio Osorio, Nancy Patricia Brito Manzano, Alejandro Lozano del Río, Ulises López Noverola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán 2008-12-01
Series:Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
Subjects:
Zea mays L.
diallel crosses
grain yield.
Online Access:http://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/219

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