Dissection of Genetic Variability, Correlation and Path Analysis of Seed Yield and Yield Contributing Traits in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and their Implication in Selection

Author: Manoranjan Biswal*, R.S. Solanki, Shailendra Sagar Prajapat, R. Shiv Rama Krishnan and Anita Babbar

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Abstract

The present experiment was conducted at Seed Breeding Farm, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur during Rabi 2019-20 and 2020-2021. The experimental materials consisted 30 advanced breeding lines of desi chickpea laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The analysis of variance showed genotypes were highly significant for all the traits suggesting presence of considerable amount of variation for all the traits among the genotypes suggesting genotypes evaluated in this present study has broad genetic base. The phenotypic coefficient of variation was higher than the genotypic coefficient of variation for all the traits. The highest genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation was noted for the trait; biological yield per plant. High heritability along with high genetic advance as % of mean were detected for seed yield per plant, biological yield per plant, number of effective pods per plant, total number of pods per plant, number of seeds p

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Chickpea, Correlation, Path analysis, Heritability, Genetic advance, Seed yield