This work was undertaken during the three successive
seasons of 1986/87, 1987/88 and 1988/89. In the first
season, seventy two new lines in the F5 of faba bean
were evaluated. In the second •and third seasons, twenty
seven promising lines, selected from the previous ones
as well as the check variety Giza—2 were involved
in the present study to evaluate the performance of
yield and yield components. Therefore, these lines
were sown in a randomized complete blocks design with
three replications.
The heritability values were 64.19, 80.18, 66.83
and 73.82 for leaf spot, broom rape, 100 seed weight
and seed yield per plant, respectively. Seasons mean
squares were significant for; number of branches per
plant, plant height, 100—seed weight and seed yield
per plant. Highly significant lines mean squares along
with significant lines by season mean squares were
detected for all traits except plant height and number
of pods per plant where the lines by season mean squars
wer& insignificant. L 8, L 14, L 25, L 32, L 43, L
51, L 53 and L 66 gave the highest pod numbers per
plant. L 66 and L 43 had the highet values of seed
yield per plant followed by L 8 and was significantly higher than the check variety Giza—2 over two seasons by 60.52%, 55.06% and 39.18%, respectively.