Table 3: Analysis of variance of general and specific combining ability calculated by griffing method for the studied traits in bread wheat.

S.O.V

df

Flag leaf area (cm2)

No. spike.m-2

No. of grain per spike

Weight of 1000 grain (gm)

Individual plant yield (gm)

Block

3

1.66

1180.6

25.32

0.26

4.26

Genotypes

14

16.27**

1512.5**

50.87**

73.47**

78.15**

GCA

4

3.23**

388.8

18.63*

27.79*

28.63*

SCA

10

8.25**

656.6*

22.25*

32.86**

30.56*

Exp. Error

42

0.81

198.6

8.15

9.40952

9.26

σ2gca

 

0.17

0.78

0.08

0.02

0.08

σ2sca