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Hundred wheat genotypes were sown in polythene bags in green house for seedling traits evaluation under water deficit condition such as emergence percentage, emergence index, emergence rate index, energy of emergence, mean emergence time desiccation tolerance index and percent seedling recovery. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotypes in most of traits. The estimates of genetic variance were smaller than their respective phenotypic variance for all the traits. The correlation of some seedling trait was positive and significant with each other. The estimates of coefficient of variability (CV %) ranged within 30.45 to 11.06. The heritability percentage was found 92.66 as maximum while 16.64 as minimum. Genetic variation, heritability and correlation estimates indicated that desiccation tolerance index and percent seedling recovery might be useful while selecting for seedling parameters in wheat under water deficit conditions.

Ijaz Rasool Noorka, Ihsan Khaliq, M. Kashif. (2007) Index Of Transmissibility And Genetic Variation In Spring Wheat Seedlings Under Water Deficit Conditions, , Volume-44, Issue-4.
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