“…For the traits days to 50 % flowering, plant height and days to maturity, out of three female lines, one line ICMA 93333 was considered as a good general combiner and three testers viz., BIB 193, BIB 186 and BIB 281 were good general combiner for days to maturity and days to 50% flowering but for PH BIB 180, BIB 212 and BIB 241 showed significant positive gca effect (Table 3). These results were comparable with the findings of Kumar et al (2017) and Krishnan et al (2017) who 212 for ear head diameter (Patel et al,2018) and BIB 241 and BIB 283 for seed yield per plant (Kumar et al, 2017) showed positive significant gca effects and hence, can be used as a good combiner (Table 3). to flowering (Sushir et al, 2005;Kumar et al,2017), five crosses for days to maturity (Sushir et al, 2005;Bhanderi et al, 2007), one (Kanfany et al, 2018) and three crosses (Rathore et al,2004;Kumar et al, 2017) for plant height with negative and positive sca effect, respectively, three (Kanfany et al, 2018) and three crosses (Rathore et al, 2004;Kumar et al, 2017 andKanfany et al, 2018) for the number of tillers with negative and positive sca effect, respectively, one cross for ear head length (Krishnan et al, 2017), four crosses for test weight (Kumar et al, 2017 andKrishnan et al, 2017) and harvest index (Kumar et al, 2017), seven crosses for biological yield (Krishnan et al, 2017) and nine crosses for seed yield (Sushir et al, 2005;Kumar et al, 2017;Kanfany et al, 2018).…”