Mean of square

 

Source of variation

Degree of freedom

Early yield

Marketable yield

Non-marketable yield

Total yield

SWI

Marketable yield percentage

GCA

5

0.01ns

0.96**

0.016**

1.19**

0.16**

216.54**

SCA

9

0.01ns

1.40**

0.002ns

1.16**

1.57**

393.06**

M΄e

28

0.003

0.03

0.001

0.02

0.04

29.08

MSGCA/MSSCA

-

1.00ns

0.69ns

8.00**

1.03ns

0.10ns

0.55ns

Baker ratio

-

0.67

0.58

0.94

0.67

0.17

0.52

h2n

-

b

b

0.64

b

b

b
ns, *, **: non significant and significant at P≤0.05 and P≤0.01 respectively b: not estimated because MS GCA ‹ MS SCA
Table 4: Mean squares from diallel analysis for various characters in cucumber (Griffing’s model I Method 4).