To evaluate the efficiency of early selection, the following methodologies were used: estimates of genetic parameters, individual heritability in the narrow sense ([h.
Estimates of individual heritability in the narrow sense were obtained by dividing additive genetic variance by phenotypic variance, of which the results are interpreted as heritability of high magnitude ([h.
Table 2 shows that individual heritability in the narrow sense had an average magnitude for the production characteristics and the number of fruits in the two cropping periods.
Estimates of heritability in the narrow sense calculated from the additive genetic component using a paternal half-sib correlation analysis ranged from 0.
All of the heritability in the narrow sense of sire half-sib and the heritability in the broad sense of dam full-sib of body weight, test diameter of S.
