A half diallel set of crosses among six highly diverse barley (Hordeum
vulgare L.) genotypes were evaluated at Karahta Research Station, General
Commission of Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), during 2010-2011
and 2011-2012 seasons to stud
y heterosis, potence ratio, correlations among
traits and path coefficient analysis for number of spikes per plant, number of
grains per plant, number of grains per spike, biological yield ,and grain yield
per plant. Heterosis effects for seed yield ranged from%-89.52 (T-6669×S-6303)
to%16.99 (Arabi abiad mohsan×S-6689) and from%-49.94 (L-6711×S-6689)
to %-1. 35 (Arabi abiad mohsan×S-6689) relative to mid and better parents
respectively. Potence ratio values ranged from 1.14 (number of spikes per
plant) to 3.50 (biological weight) indicating that non-additive gene action was
more important in controlling all studied traits. Correlation coefficients among
traits indicated that seed yield was positively and significantly associated with
each of number of spikes per plant (0.289), number of grains per plant (0.832),
number of grains per spike (0.587), and biological yield (0.708) traits. Path
coefficient analysis indicated that number of grains per plant trait had high
positive direct effects on grain yield.
A half diallel set of crosses among six highly diverse barley (Hordeum
vulgare L.) genotypes were evaluated at Karahta station of field crops research
(GCSAR) Damascus Governorate, during 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons to
study heterosis and comb
ining ability components for plant height, grain yield
per plant, number of spikes per plant, number of grains per spike and
thousand kernel weight.
