Complete diallel mating design of five parents NIAB KRISHMA, SLS-1, MNH-513, BH-162 and LA.FREGOBRACTS-3159 were used in the crosses to study the inheritance pattern and combining ability for various plant traits such as plant height, number of monopodial branches, number of sympodial branches, number of bolls per plant, seed cotton yield, boll weight, GOT , fiber length, fiber strength and fiber fineness in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). The data collected were subjected to analysis of variance technique which shows significant results of all characters. The characters showing significant...

Saccharum is a complex genus characterized by high ploidy levels and composed of at least six distinct species S. officinarum, S. barberi, S. sinensis, S. spontanum, S. robustum and S. edule. Principal Component Analysis in ten accessions of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) was conducted; analysis of variance indicated highly significant differences among the accessions for all the traits. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a way of identifying patterns in data, and expressing the data in such a way as to highlight their similarities and differences. Micro propagation is a technique to...

A field research was conducted under field situation at the Research Area, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, to study the combining ability effects for yield and its components in sunflower. Fifteen accessions of sunflower were crossed in line × tester fashion. Crosses along with their parents were grown in the field. For this purpose 10 lines (G-16, G-68, G-146, G-55, G-82, G-40, G-9, HBR-5, A-18 and G-57) and 5 testers (G-3, G-32, G-61, G-50, and G-54) were crossed according to line × tester fashion. Among the lines G-82, G-40, G-9 and HBR-5 showed positive and significant GCA...