Abstract:The analysis of variance revealed that significant differences among treatments, parents, hybrids and parents
v/s hybrids for all characters except days to maturity. This validated that, considerable amount of variability among experimental material. Five crosses
viz., TBS-10 x TBS-05, R-20 x TBS-05, TBS-07 x TBS-05, TBS-05 x R-09 and TBS-10 x V-13 manifested significant and positive heterosis over better parent and both standard checks AKT-101 and JLT-408 respectively, for seed yield per plant.
The above mentioned highly heterotic crosses also occupied top ranks in per se performance for seed yield per plant. Hence, these crosses would be exploited for isolating transgressive segregants for seed yield and its component traits for genetic improvement in sesame.