This research was conducted at two distinct environmentally locations,
Jellien and Al-Somakiate belong to Dara'a Research Center, the General
Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research during 2011-2012 growing
season. 13 garden pea genotypes
were planted according to a randomized
complete block design with three replicates to study the performance of these
genotypes for 10 important quantitative traits and to detrmine the genotypic
and phenotypic coefficients of correlation between the traits studied.
Results showed that there were significant differences among the genotypes
for all traits studied at both distict locations. The genotypic correlation
coefficients were higher than corresponding phenotypic correlations, in
addition, the value and direction of correlation coefficient at both levels were
different from location to another. Green pod yield showed positive and
significant correlations with pod width, harvest index and 10-green pod weight
at Jellien location, and with pod length, pod width, pods number per plant and
10-green pod weight at Al-Somakiate location.
Genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variance, broad and narrow-sense
heritability, expected genetic advance and relative genetic advance of earliness
characteristics in six pea hybrids produced by 4 x 4 half-diallel crossing scheme
were estima
ted. The results, in general, showed low values of phenotypic
coefficient of variance (in all crosses) of days to beginning of flowering and days
to marketable maturity; which may indicates to a low effect of environmental
variation on the expression of both these characters, but were medium to high
for number of low internodes and internode's length. Estimates of heritability
in broad sense were medium to high for days to beginning of flowering (0.42 –
0.90) and days to marketable maturity (0.42 – 0.91), and biased estimates of
narrow-sense heritability have been recorded in most of the crosses and in
majority of the parameters studied; so we can’t adopt them as reliable data.
The highest estimates of relative expected genetic advance of number for low
internodes have been observed in Mutant-3 x Dasargelo (25.95%) and
Dasargelo x Nassra (25.11 %) and for internode's length in Dasargelo x Oterlo
(37.31 %). The selection procedure can be effectively made for achievement
further improvement of internode's length in early segregating generations of
Dasargelo x Oterlo hybrid; because it has high values of genotypic coefficient of
variance, broad-sense heritability and relative expected genetic advance.
