Maize is an important food crop in Ethiopia. But its nutritional quality is poor as its seed protein is devoid of two essentialamino acids (lysine and tryptophan). The objective of the present study was to
evaluate the performance of Quality Protein Maize (QPM) hybrids developed by
CIMMYT.
Forty three QPM hybrids and 2 checks were tested using 5X9 alpha
lattice design with two replications. Data were subjected to ANOVA using SAS
version 9.2. The ANOVA revealed very highly significant differences among the geno types(p<0.001), for 50% tasseling, ear height, plant count and grain yield. High
phenotypic variances were observed for ear height, number of rows/ear, number
of grains/row and grain yield.
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