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. 2020 May 19;26(6):1309–1317. doi: 10.1007/s12298-020-00826-x

Table 3.

Estimate of genetic parameters, broad-sense heritability, genetic advance for milling and appearance quality characteristics and grain yield of 100 rice accessions evaluated at Fumesua-Kumasi, Ghana in 2018

Trait Mean Range σ2g σ2e σ2p GCV (%) ECV (%) PCV (%) H2 (%) GA (%)
Min Max
MGrL 6.63 5.64 7.93 0.15 ± 0.02** 0.06 ± 0.01** 0.21 5.8 3.8 7.0 70.6 0.21
MGrW 2.25 1.95 2.65 0.01 ± 0.00** 0.01 ± 0.00** 0.02 4.7 3.6 6.0 62.9 0.02
L/W 2.96 2.32 3.77 0.07 ± 0.01** 0.03 ± 0.00** 0.10 9.0 5.4 10.5 73.8 0.10
PGWC 34.26 1.59 100.00 676.14 ± 112.14** 307.28 ± 30.88** 983.42 75.9 51.2 91.5 68.8 983.42
DC 10.11 0.67 34.17 30.85 ± 5.26** 16.05 ± 1.65** 46.90 55.0 39.6 67.8 65.8 46.90
BRR 70.08 63.00 75.00 2.57 ± 0.95** 9.72 ± 1.00** 12.29 2.3 4.4 5.0 20.9 12.29
MRR 62.06 51.40 67.70 4.16 ± 1.11** 8.92 ± 0.92** 13.08 3.3 4.8 5.8 31.8 13.08
DM 11.41 7.00 22.00 1.87 ± 0.91* 11.41 ± 1.29** 13.28 12.0 29.6 31.9 14.1 13.28
HRR 44.15 25.30 63.10 24.66 ± 9.10* 99.87 ± 10.35** 124.53 11.2 22.6 25.3 19.8 124.53
BroGr 17.91 4.60 34.50 13.97 ± 6.54* 79.69 ± 8.20** 93.67 20.9 49.8 54.0 14.9 93.67
100-HRW 1.87 1.50 2.40 0.01 ± 0.00** 0.03 ± 0.00** 0.05 6.2 9.6 11.4 29.6 0.05
GY 4.46 1.6 7.8 0.64 ± 0.21** 2.13 ± 0.22** 2.54 2.77 17.9 32.7 37.3 23.1

σ2g Genotype variance; σ2e Environmental variance; σ2p Phenotype variance; GCV Genotype coefficient of variation; ECV Error coefficient of variation; PCV Phenotype coefficient of variation; H2 Broad sense heritability; GA Genetic advance as percent of mean

MGrL Milled grain length; MGrW Milled grain width; L/W Milled grain length to width ratio; PGWC Percentage of grain with chalkiness; DC Degree of chalkiness; BRR Brown rice recovery; MRR Milled rice recovery; DM Degree of milling; HRR Head rice recovery; BroGr Percentage of Broken rice grains; 100-HRW Hundred Head rice weight; GY Grain Yield

*Significant at 0.05 level of probability; **Significant at 0.01 level of probability