Table 3.

Range, mean, standard error, phenotypic, and genotypic coefficient of variation, heritability and genetic advance for agro-morphological traits in F₃ and F₄ generations of lentil wide crosses.

Cross/generation	F3				F4
Trait/ parameter	PCV†	GCV	Heritability (%)	Genetic advance (%)	PCV	GCV	Heritability (%)	Genetic advance (%)
ILL8006 × ILWL62
Days to flowering	12.68	11.13	84.78	6.43	15.54	13.45	86.49	7.87
Days to maturity	2.26	1.98	82.72	1.97	3.82	3.31	84.51	2.41
Plant height (cm)	29.62	25.10	81.74	51.19	38.56	33.35	82.53	71.60
No. of branches plant−1	39.08	34.30	77.78	32.01	52.58	45.49	76.51	88.19
No. of pods plant−1	109.38	90.01	72.30	11.20	13.53	89.58	77.36	17.30
Seed yield plant−1 (g)	108.34	95.13	87.81	125.01	106.05	91.73	81.50	834.05
Biological yield plant−1 (g)	65.59	57.39	82.50	113.67	93.91	81.25	80.51	216.78
ILL10829 × ILWL30
Days to flowering	3.79	3.49	77.06	4.60	18.51	17.04	86.05	2.94
Days to maturity	0.70	0.60	81.61	1.48	2.23	2.06	82.03	2.02
Plant height (cm)	17.37	17.20	88.99	37.21	24.28	22.60	83.10	52.76
No. of branches plant−1	33.65	30.98	82.07	36.74	46.93	43.21	89.07	88.02
No. of pods plant−1	77.23	71.17	72.06	11.43	64.91	59.76	82.04	21.72
Seed yield plant−1 (g)	104.41	96.14	82.08	725.65	59.52	54.80	77.07	812.48
Biological yield plant−1 (g)	55.32	50.93	72.07	117.18	55.50	51.10	82.02	161.97

^†PCV, phenotypic coefficient of variation; GCV, genotypic coefficient of variation.