An investigation consisted of 225 chickpea genotypes along with 5 checks viz., PG-5, PG-3, H208, DCP-92-3 and GL10006 was conducted during the rabi season of year 2017-18 at N.E.B., C.R.C., GBPUA & T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. The objective of present study was to estimate magnitude of different parameters of genetic variability for yield and its attributes. The observations were recorded for thirteen different yield and its contributing characters and the obtained results indicated that in general the phenotypic coefficient of variance was found to be higher as compared to genotypic coefficient of variance for all studied traits. High heritability along with high genetic advance (% mean) was obtained for characters viz., number of primary branches/plant (PB), number of secondary branches/plant (SB), first pod height (FPH), number of pods per plant (PPP), number of seed per pod (SPP), 100 seed weight (SW), biological yield (BY) and seed yield (Yield).Thus, the high heritability coupled w

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The presence of genetic variability is considered important criteria for crop improvement. Based on the findings of this study, it is concluded that a high variability estimates was observed for all studied traits. For all studied characters, the PCV was larger than GCV, showing that the environment had an impact on expression of these characters. High heritability coupled with high GA (% mean) was observed for PB, SB, FPH, PPP, SPP, SW, BY and Yield. The high heritability coupled with high genetic advance indicated that these characters can be improved upon by selection since they were under control of additive gene effect. Therefore, it is important to interpret expected genetic advance in relation to both genetic variability and heritability for deciding the possibilities of improvement through selection.

Gautam, A., Panwar, R.K., Verma, S.K., Arora, A., Gaur, A.K. and Chauhan, C. (2021). Assessment of Genetic Variability Parameters for Yield and its Components in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(2): 651-655