COMBINING ABILITY STUDIES IN BREADWHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L. EM THELL) UNDER SALT STRESS ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

Combining ability for grain yield and other related characters under salt stress conditions was studied in a set of dialIel crosses involving ten cultivars of breadwheat. Both additive and nonadditive gene effects were important in. the inheritance of most of the traits. The parent varieties HD 2285, KRL 1-4 and PBW 65 and cross KRL 3-4 X KRL 1-4 had high gca and sca, respectively, and they could be utilized for further selection of high yielding progenies under salt stress conditions.