Author(s)

Fahim Abbas^1*, Asim Riaz², Tanzeela Zafar³, Muhammad Hassan⁴, Hafiz Muhammad Imran Umar⁴, Javed Hassan⁴, Waseem Alam⁴, Saleh Muhammad⁵, Mudassir Mahmood⁵, Hamza Sohail⁶, Usman Ali Tiwana⁷, Muhammad Tayyab Iqbal⁴, Muhammad Bilal⁸

¹Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China.
²Department of Pharmacy Health and Well-Being, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.
³Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
⁴Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
⁵Department of Entomology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
⁶Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
⁷Arid Zone Research Institute, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
⁸Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, PMAS-UAA, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The present study was conducted in 4 × 4 half diallel cross fashion using the genotypes named as NL-2002, NL-2006, Punjab Masoor-2009 and Markaz-2009 for the evaluation of gene action in the inheritance of economic traits of lentil by following the Griffing (1956) Method of analysis. Minirap 13.1 Copyright^© 2000, Minitab inc. Method II, Model I was used for the analysis and gene action was computed by variance component analysis using Mixed Model with GLM (general linear model) procedure. The F₁ direct crosses along with the parental genotypes were then evaluated by framing the experiment in RCBD in 3 replications. The data were recorded for the characters which are under the study are, plant height (cm), number of primary branches, number of secondary branches, number of pods per plant, number of seed per pod, seed yield per plant, biomass (gram), 100 seeds weight (gram), harvest index (%), yield per plant. The simple ANOVA for all the characters revealed that difference among genotypes was highly significant. As significant differences were present between the genotypes, it permitted subsequent analysis of the data. The Combining Ability (CA) results showed that value of variance for GCA (General Combining Ability) was significantly higher than that of those of the values of variance of SCA (Specific Combining Ability). Hence current results clearly depicted the role of additive type of gene action governing the characters under study.

Lentil, Diallel, Gene Action Studies

Abbas, F. , Riaz, A. , Zafar, T. , Hassan, M. , Imran Umar, H. , Hassan, J. , Alam, W. , Muhammad, S. , Mahmood, M. , Sohail, H. , Ali Tiwana, U. , Iqbal, M. and Bilal, M. (2016) Gene Action Studies in the Inheritance of Economic Traits in Diallel Cross of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik). American Journal of Plant Sciences, 7, 756-768. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2016.76069.