Combining ability in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under salinity and normal conditions

Abstract

Breeding for salt tolerance in wheat would depend on intensive hybridization using salt tolerant donors and high yielding commercial cultivars. Presently, information on the combining ability for various traits in bread wheat under normal condition is abundant but under salinity, the information is meager. The present investigation was therefore conducted to generate information on combining ability and the nature of gene action involved in the inheritance of grain yield and other component traits in wheat under salinity and normal conditions.