Abstract:In this experiment,8 popcorn breeds which have remarkable genetic divergence were selected to make crosses by method II of Griffing.F1s of all crosses,F2s of some crosses,back-crossing generation and parents were used to study inheritance of progenies on seed expansion times characters which included:hybrid preponderant performance,inheritable ability,selection responses,number of affection genes,gene effect.The results showed:seed expansion times character has hybrid preponderance.In F1 generation,the number of positive preponderant crosses in seed expansion times character was obviously less than that of negative ones,the number of non-dominante crosses was 0.Seed times expansion character is suitable to select in early generation for its inheritable ability is higher and selective responsibility is bigger.Base on this study,there were at less 7 pairs allele genes controlled the performance of times of seed expansion character.Analysis of gene effect showed that genetics of seed expansion times character was fitted to the additive-dominante model,but additive effect was most important.