The present investigation " Genetic analysis of excessive soil moisture tolerance in tropical maize (Zea mays L.)" was designed to establish the genetics of stress adaptive and other traits related to excessive soil moisture tolerance with following major objectives: 1. To assess the extent of genotypic variability for excessive moisture tolerance in tropical maize. 2. To establish the inheritance patterns and gene action under excessive moisture stress. 3. To identify the inheritance pattern of the traits associated with excessive moisture tolerance in maize.