Study general and specific combining ability of traits in parental lines of hybrid rice

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To determine the general and specific combining ability of the parental lines, five restorers ‎and four male sterility lines were selected as lines and testers respectively. Nine parental lines were ‎crossed in a Line × Tester crossing system in year 2005 and the eight F1 hybrids and their six ‎parents in Randomized Complete Blocks Design (RCBD‏ (‏in two replications for yield, yield ‎components and major qualitative characters. The effect of GCA was negative and significant for ‎grain yield in line No.2 (Sepidrood), and in line SA14R, it was positive and significant for grain ‎yield. The effect of SCA was positive and significant for grain yield in four hybrids of ‎IR58025A/IR62030R, IR79124A/ SA13R, IR79124A /SA14R and SA15A /Sepidrood. Two hybrids ‎‎(IR79124A/ SA13R and IR79124A /SA14R) had the highest grain yield with 10.4 and 11.5 t/ha ‎repectively. Thes combinations were recommended for hybrid seed production in of Gilan province. ‎

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