Table 3 Agronomic performance of selected introgressed progenies vis‐à‐vis respective recurrent parents across the three locations.

From: Marker-assisted pyramiding of lycopene-ε-cyclase, β-carotene hydroxylase1 and opaque2 genes for development of biofortified maize hybrids

Introgressed inbreds

Pedigree

PH (cm)

DTA

DTS

EH (cm)

CG (cm)

CL (cm)

NKRPE

NKPR

GY (kg/ha)

QβLM11-A

QβLM11-22-7-4-8-1-6

164.10

53.78

56.67

90.02

3.69

16.47

15.58

24.33

3511.03

QβLM11-B

QβLM11-22-7-4-8-3-2

165.33

53.28

56.44

92.06

3.07

14.53

14.14

18.40

3168.62

QβLM11-C

QβLM11-22-7-4-8-3-4

161.88

54.22

56.89

90.33

3.51

16.12

17.54

24.68

3021.53

QLM11

-

166.07

53.11

55.56

92.51

3.36

15.59

16.07

19.81

3134.16

QβLM12-A

QβLM12-16-2-7-1-1-1

153.49

53.56

56.78

86.11

3.72

14.65

16.39

19.93

3501.87

QβLM12-B

QβLM12-16-2-10-4-1-4

160.69

54.22

56.56

89.95

3.44

16.43

16.22

22.06

3416.94

QβLM12-C

QβLM12-16-2-7-6-1-6

167.14

52.78

55.33

94.96

3.21

14.96

13.57

21.35

3017.22

QLM12

-

173.16

52.56

55.78

97.17

3.64

14.97

14.34

20.27

3245.36

QβLM13-A

QβLM13-38-4-8-6-4-4

164.42

53.89

57.11

91.82

3.58

16.14

15.34

25.74

3424.66

QβLM13-B

QβLM13-38-4-8-6-5-5

176.78

53.89

56.22

99.83

3.97

17.36

15.12

26.04

3618.23

QβLM13-C

QβLM13-38-4-8-6-6-1

161.49

53.89

56.89

93.47

3.79

16.26

11.81

25.87

3335.54

QLM13

-

164.57

53.89

56.22

93.73

3.76

16.14

15.10

24.32

3196.95

QβLM14-A

QβLM14-79-3-3-5-9-9

166.37

55.22

58.00

94.91

3.44

15.11

14.99

19.76

3323.07

QβLM14-B

QβLM14-79-3-3-9-2-3

164.28

55.22

58.11

95.61

3.59

17.74

16.43

22.11

3423.27

QβLM14-C

QβLM14-89-3-4-8-7-7

166.42

54.89

57.67

95.68

3.07

16.56

16.10

20.47

3426.29

QLM14

–

172.31

55.22

57.44

98.24

3.27

16.14

16.53

20.08

3375.02

SE(d)

 

6.27

0.75

0.77

3.57

0.13

0.95

0.77

0.98

104.22

CD (0.05%)

 

17.37

2.07

2.15

9.81

0.37

2.62

2.14

2.71

288.84

  1. PH, plant height; DTA, days to 50% anthesis; DTS, days to 50% silking; EH, ear height; CG, cob girth; CL, cob length; NKRPE, number of kernel rows per ear; NKPR, number of kernels per row; GY, grain yield kg/ha; SE, standard error of difference; CD, critical difference for comparing the averages among sets.
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