Table 5: Estimations of the effects of the general combining ability (G^I) for each parent for the studied traits.

Parents

Flag leaf area (cm2)

No. spike.m-2

No. of grain per spike

Weight of 1000 grain (gm)

Individual plant yield (gm)

1

0.50

7.90

0.99-

0.16-

1.26

2

0.52-

1.66-

0.67-

0.39

0.34

3

0.34-

1.77

0.58

1.68-

2.42-

4

0.17

11.80-

2.18

0.30

0.76-

5

2.37

3.78

1.11-

1.15

1.58

S. E. g^i

0.17

2.75

0.55

0.60

0.59