Table 2. Performance of different characters of hybrid barleys.
Traits | Mid-parents heterosis | Over-better-parent heterosis | ||||||
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Mean | Range | CV | Significant percentage | Mean | Range | CV | Significant percentage | |
PH/cm | 17.22 | 2.09~34.00 | 42.87 | 97.2% | 27.36 | 8.03~57.93 | 39.89 | 0% |
IL/cm | 5.29 | -0.20~12.64 | 56.43 | 81.9% | 3.29 | -2.89~9.88 | 92.03 | 68.1% |
SL/cm | 1.21 | -0.54~2.83 | 66.29 | 76.4% | 0.28 | -1.54~2.46 | 277.56 | 20.8% |
SP/no | 0.53 | -1.87~3.17 | 223.34 | 15.3% | -0.41 | -2.97~2.39 | 324.69 | 5.6% |
TKW/g | 8.31 | -1.50~20.77 | 69.59 | 73.6% | 4.90 | -9.04~18.16 | 125.95 | 72.2% |
KWP/g | 1.78 | -3.08~9.75 | 130.96 | 16.7% | 0.09 | -7.21~7.29 | 3284.30 | 9.7% |
DWP/g | 3.68 | -6.96~16.41 | 130.32 | 33.3% | -0.54 | -15.92~9.75 | 1110.07 | 8.33% |
PH: plant height; SL: spike length excluding awns; IL: inter-node length; SP: spikes per plant; TKW: thousand kernel weight; KWP: kernel weight per plant; DWP: dry matter weight per plant.