| Abstrakt: |
The field and laboratory experiments were conducted at ZARS, V. C. Farm, Mandya, during kharif 2020 to study the phenology of parental lines of promising maize hybrids for their seed production potentiality. The results revealed that mean sum of squares due to parental lines indicated significant differences for growth and yield parameters viz., field emergence, plant height, cob length, cob weight, number of rows per cob, number kernels per row and seed yield per hectare and quality parameters viz., hundred seed weight, seed germination, mean seedling length and seedling vigour index I and II. Among the parental lines MAI-729 has showed significantly higher cob weight (114.33 g), hundred seed weight (29.11 g), seed yield per hectare (45.71 q ha-1) and seed vigour index-I and II (3550 and 7673, respectively). Therefore, MAI-729 line could be recommended for breeding and seed production programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
