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

Table 2

Genetic parameters of different traits in watermelon based on Hayman’s method.

Sugar content	pH	Skin thickness	Flesh weight	Fruit length	Fruit weight per plant	Fruit maturity period	Fruit number per plant	Genetic parameter^#
0.14^ns	0.0027^ns	0.011^ns				0.67^ns
	0.0029^ns	0.02^ns				24.96^ns
0.85^ns	0.0026^ns	0.04^ns	0.165^ns	1.53^ns	0.40^ns	40.83^ns	0.066^ns
							0.119^ns
		0.095^ns					0.079^ns
0.00001^ns	0.000001^ns					4.83^ns	0.0001^ns
1.64	2.77	2.35	3.60	1.79	2.42	3.46	0.805
0.16	0.21	0.20	0.22	0.24	0.23	0.19	0.165
3.22	1.39	2.18	2.09	1.37	1.81	1.62	1.57
0.50	0.28	−0.55	−0.46	−0.95	−0.37	0.098	−0.797
0.000001	0.00014	1.03	1.40	1.99	1.14	0.022	0.0001
0.151	0.226	0.079	0.038	0.195	0.013	0.345	0.352
0.655	0.717	0.715	0.768	0.717	0.694	0.992	0.439
−0.053	−0.00033	0.016	−0.137	−2.464	-0.233	9.16	−0.057
0.284^ns	0.518^ns	0.518^ns	0.138^ns	−0.481^ns	1.42^ns	5.7^ns	1.48^ns
0.000005^ns	0.0076^ns	0.0076^ns	0.02^ns	0.93^ns	0.05^ns	3711.68^ns	0.027^ns

ns: nonsignificant; significant at 5% probability level; significant at 1% probability level; : environmental variance; : additive variance; : covariance of additive with dominance effect; and : dominance variances; : dominance effect over all loci in the heterozygous phase; : mean degree of dominance; : proportion of dominance genes with increasing and decreasing effects; : proportion of all genes with positive and negative effects in the parents; correlation between parent means () with ; : number of gene blocks controlling the trait and exhibiting dominance; : narrow sense heritability; : broad sense heritability; : intercept of regression line; : significant test of regression coefficient from one; analysis of variance for over replications.