Estimates of various components of genetic variance and heritability were obtained using North Carolina Design I for total plant weight, head weight and days to maturity on two Chinese cabbage populations, 189C₁ and 129C₁, that had each undergone ...
Estimates of various components of genetic variance and heritability were obtained using North Carolina Design I for total plant weight, head weight and days to maturity on two Chinese cabbage populations, 189C₁ and 129C₁, that had each undergone one cycle of recurrent selection. Correlations between mean of selfed progenies (S₁) and half-sibs were also investigated.
Average degrees of dominance for head weight and days to maturity were in the range of no or partial dominance in population 129C₁ while they were within complete or over-dominance range in 189C₁. Average degree of dominance for total weight showed the opposite trend to the two above-mentioned characters in both populations.
Although the genetic systems are implied to be in. the additive range, estimates of heritability were lower in 129C₁ compared to 189C₁ for both total weight and head weight. These were attributed to the greater environmental susceptibility of the former population.
Correlations between mean performance of S₁ and half-sibs were highly significant for all three characters in population 129C₁ but not for any one character in population 189C₁.
The implications of the above results in future improvement programs involving these populations were also discussed.