“…In this case, it is recommended that an effective selection must start in the later segregating generations F 4 -F 5 when the influence of the non-additive effects (dominance) decreases and the additivity increases. The results from this study for productivity tiller ing capacity are in line with those obtained by other authors (Desale, Mehta, 2013;Mostafa et al, 2014;Kandil et al, 2016;Ahmad et al, 2017;Saeed, Khalil, 2017;El-Gammaal, Morad, 2018;Parveen et al, 2018;Talha et al, 2018;Amin, Towfiq, 2019;Bajaniya et al, 2019;Farooq et al, 2019;Ayoob, 2020;Hammam et al, 2020); for number of spikelets per spike (Mostafa et al, 2014;Kandil et al, 2016;Ahmad et al, 2017;Saeed, Khalil, 2017;Tiwari et al, 2017;Parveen et al, 2018;Talha et al, 2018;Farooq et al, 2019;Ayoob, 2020;Khaled et al, 2020); for kernels weight per spike (Padhar et al, 2013;Mostafa et al, 2014;Kandil et al, 2016;Mandal, Madhuri, 2016;Tiwari et al, 2017;Talha et al, 2018;Amin, Towfiq, 2019, Shamsabadi et al, 2020.…”