The importance of earliness for creating new ms F1 pepper hybrids

Abstract

Breeding new line pepper genotypes is an important goal for the Institute for Vegetable Crops, Smederevska Palanka. Years of selection resulted in great number of varieties, however, the selection of F1 pepper hybrids started recently. Pepper F1 hybrids have proved to be better than cultivars in the terms of earliness, yield, plant uniformity, pathogen resistance etc. Considering significant heterosis values for earliness, this paper deals with the genetic analysis of F1 and F2 pepper hybrids, obtained by crossing four lines, including ms line HM-6