The present investigation was laid out to understand the combining ability effects, nature of gene action of parents and their hybrids, heterosis and stability performance for seed yield and yield contributing characters in four different environments. The experimental material comprising of 118 entries involving 25 parents, 18 single cross hybrids, 72 three way cross hybrids along with three checks were evaluated in randomized block design with two replications during two crop seasons i.e. Rabi, 2018 and Kharif, 2019 at two locations i.e. Parbhani (E1 and E3) and Latur (E2 and E4) comprising...

The present investigation was undertaken to know the magnitude of heterosis in crosses and combining ability of male sterile and restorer lines for grain yields and its related traits in Pearl millet. The experimental material consisted of 20 hybrids, 04 maintainer and 05 restorer lines along with 02 checks and was evaluated in two replication at Later during Kharif 2016 with recommended package of practices. the observations were recorded on days to 50 per cent flowering, days to maturity, plant height (cm), total number of tillers per plant, number of effective tillers per plant, 1000 grain...

The present investigation carried out to study heterosis, combining ability and gene action in okra. The experimental material comprising 21 hybrids, their 7 parents and 2 checks were evaluated in RBD with two replications during late Summer 2016-17. Observations were recorded on 11 quantitative traits. The magnitude of heterosis over better parent and standard checks for most of the characters in present study were highly appreciable. The magnitude of heterosis was highest in the crosses for YVMV incidence (%) over better parent in the crosses followed by number of branches per plant over...

The present investigation was carried out to know genetic variability, correlation and path analysis among nine characters in soybean. The experiment consisted 30 genotypes and was evaluated in three replications during kharif season 2011. The results revealed significant differences among the genotypes indicated sufficient amount of variability present in the material. The genotypic and phenotypic variances were high for pods per plant, plant height, days to maturity and seed yield per plant. The genotypic coefficient of variation was observed high for number of pods per plant followed by...