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.
