Examining the Inheritance of Watermelon Fruit Traits by Hayman’s Graphical Approach

Table 1

Variance analysis of different traits of watermelon using Hayman’s method.

Mean square of studied traits								DF	Source of variation
Sugar content	pH	Skin thickness	Flesh weight	Fruit length	Fruit weight/plant	Fruit maturity period	Fruit number/plant
0.696^ns	0.006^ns	0.031^ns	0.14^ns	1.94^ns	0.651^ns	3.04^ns	1.013^ns	2	Replication
								24	Genotype
1.38^#		0.077^ns	0.316^ns		0.64^ns			4
							0.49^ns	10
0.32^ns	0.008^ns						0.21^ns	1
				5.20^ns			0.58^ns	4
							0.49^ns	5
	0.013^ns	0.027^ns	0.48^#	12.22^#	1.42^#			4
1.03^#	0.008^ns		0.74^##	13.92^##			0.73^ns	6
0.42	0.008	0.032	0.175	3.43	0.519	1.97	0.354	48	Error

ns: nonsignificant; significant at 5% probability level; significant at 1% probability level (each of the terms was tested against the interaction of each term with replication); ^#significant at 5% probability level; ^##significant at 1% probability level (all terms were tested against the experimental error).