Research Article

Assessment of the Effects of Seed Storage Time on Germination Rate and Performance Evaluation of Ethiopian Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Varieties for Yield and Related Traits

Table 8

Estimate of the variance components in the 22 quantitative traits used to evaluate the performance of faba bean varieties.

Traitsδ2eδ2gδ2geδ2pGCV (%)PCV (%)GECV (%)Hb (%)GAGAM

LL0.000.080.300.273.776.977.2429.230.314.19
LW0.010.240.040.2712.2813.025.0188.890.9523.80
LA0.3113.393.2315.2514.4015.367.0787.827.0527.74
LAI3.54618.7060.04722.1213.3314.404.1585.6847.3425.37
PoL0.000.250.050.327.268.233.2577.720.9113.15
PoW0.000.020.000.029.6910.542.1784.510.2718.31
IL0.030.040.020.064.465.543.1664.860.337.39
PHFPo0.225.200.626.266.817.472.3583.094.2712.76
PH1.5241.572.1646.316.036.371.3889.7712.5611.75
NBPP0.000.040.000.0514.6016.433.2678.950.3726.67
NPPP0.816.040.737.2010.4711.433.6483.874.6319.72
NSPP3.2249.6115.8363.0011.3712.816.4278.7512.8520.74
NSPPo0.000.030.010.046.497.173.7581.820.3212.06
DTF0.193.041.894.062.993.452.3674.853.105.32
DTM3.949.672.7412.672.422.771.2976.335.594.35
SFP0.955.653.437.733.444.022.6873.064.186.04
SPE0.00334374.5037764.40672004.0523.8733.858.0249.76838.6334.62
TSW0.006057.00704.306620.3712.3512.924.2191.49153.0524.30
EGR1.67104.798.66113.1519.6620.425.6592.6120.2538.89
BmWPP0.00964311.300.001072149.4821.5322.700.0089.941914.7541.98
SYPP2069.60171120.508098.50189495.5726.8028.205.8390.30808.2152.36
HI2.0251.080.0059.3020.7922.400.0086.1413.6439.68

Description of the traits is presented under Table 2; δ2e = environmental variance; δ2g = genotypic variance; δ2ge = variance due to genotype environment interaction; δ2p = phenotypic variance; GCV = genotypic coefficients of variation; PCV = phenotypic coefficients of variation; GECV = genotype-environment interaction coefficients of variation; Hb = heritability in broad sense; GA = genetic advance; GAM = genetic advance as a percent of traits means.