Abstract:
Estimates of components revealed that both additive and non-additive
type of gene actions were operating for all three characters. Number of fruits
per plant showed predominantly additive gene action while days to flower and
plant height showed non-additive gene action. Dominance was found to be
acting in the direction of earliness, tallness and greater number of fruits per
plant. Asymmetrical distribution of positive and negative alleles wiu observed
for all the characters in all the generations. Days to flowering and number of
fruits per plant were controlled by one to three groups of dominant genes
while it was four to fiive for plant height. Overdominance was observed for
all the three characters.