Construction of Diallel Cross Design by using the Method of Cyclic Shifts

Abstract

Selection of good diallel cross design is necessary for getting success in agriculture researches and particularly related with plant and animal breeding experiments. There are many methods of construction for such a design available in the literature. In this paper, a method of construction called the method of addition or cyclic shifts is used to construct such designs. The important aspect of the method of cyclic shifts is that the properties of a design can be obtained from the off-diagonal elements of the concurrences matrix without constructing the actual blocks of the design.