CROP RESEARCH
Year : 2011, Volume : 41, Issue : 1to3
First page : ( 255) Last page : ( 256)
Print ISSN : 0970-4884.

Components of genetic variance in cucumber (cucumis sativus l.)

Hanchinamani C. N., Patil M. G.

Department of Horticulture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dhanvad-580 005 (Kamataka), India

Online published on 19 March, 2018.

Abstract

GCA: SCA ratio was more than one for the characters days to first female flower, dry weight of fruits, number of marketable fruits per vine, total number of fruits per vine, marketable fruit yield per vine and totalfruit yield per vine indicating the predominant role of additive gene action, whereas all the characters recorded the ratio less than one indicating the predominant role of dominant genes.

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Keywords

Dominant, Gene action, General com!)ining ability, Inheritance, Specific combining ability.

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