Indian Society of Genetics & Plant Breeding
The present study was carried out to identify sunflower
hybrids suitable for water and salt stress areas which
will be highly essential for increasing area of cultivation
under sunflower. This study included sixty hybrids
along with their parents viz., four Cytoplasmic Male
Sterile (CMS) lines and fifteen restores. The 60 hybrids
and their 19 parents were evaluated in three different
environments viz., Normal condition, Rainfed condition
and Salt stress condition. From this study it was
concluded that the hybrids are more adaptive than
parents for yield and yield components. Among the 60
hybrids studied, 821 A x 60-1, 821 A x CO 4 and 852 A x
RHA 298 were found to be stable with high mean,
regression coefficient (bi) around unity and deviation
from regression coefficient (S2dl ) around zero for the
three characters viz., diameter of stem, head diameter
and seed yield per plant.These hybrids were concluded
as stable hybrids.
Keywords: Cytoplasmic male sterile lines, Eberhart and Russell, Stability and Sunflower
Year: 2007
Volume: 67
Issue: 4
Article DOI: NA
Print ISSN: 0019-5200
Online ISSN: 0975-6906
P. Amala Balu, P. Sumathi, S. M. Ibrahim and T. Kalaimagal info_circle
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