Construction of Partial Triallel Crosses based on Trojan Square Design

A systematic method of developing or raising the offsprings of parents or lines that are subjected to analysis to draw valid inferences about parents is called a Mating Design (MD). A Mating Design represents only a part of a genetic experiment. Diallel and the four North Carolina (NC) designs, Triallel and Double Crosses are notable examples of mating designs. In this paper, an attempt has been made to provide a systematic method of construction of Partial Triallel Crosses (PTC) using Trojan Square Design (TSD), which requires only the fraction of the number of crosses to be made compared with Triallel Crosses.