he variance components, i.e. (i) genotypic variance between S1 progenies means; (ii) environmental variance between plots; (iii) phenotypic variance within families; (iv) phenotypic variance among plants in the experiment; (v) phenotypic variance among the progeny mean; (vi) phenotypic variance among plants inside the block; (vii) heritability of progeny means for the selection among the means of endogamic families; (viii) heritability at plant level for selection among plants within progenies; (ix) heritability at plant level for selection among plants within the block; (x) heritability at plant level for the selection among plants in the experiment; (xi) phenotypic coefficient of variation among plants in the experiment; (xii) genotypic coefficient of variation among progenies; (xiii) genotypic coefficient of variation among progenies and (xiv) genotypic coefficient of variation among progenies, for each trait were estimated from this analysis of variance, by means of the standard estimators which can be found in Ramalho et al. (2000) and Vencovsky and Barriga (1992).