Evaluation of Genetic Variability Parameters in 185 F3 Progenies of Black Gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] for Seed Yield and Related Components

Author: V.B. Rana, J.P. Makati, Naresh Chaudhary, Rutvik J. Joshi, Shivangi Vanapariya, Zarna S. Shah, A.V. Malaviya and Sanyam Patel

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Abstract

Black gram is an important autogamous pulse crop with cleistogamous condition, hence showing minimal variation. So, the experiment was done to assess the black gram F3 progenies of cross NUK-15-02 × GU-1 along with four checks GU-1, GU-2, GU-3 and T-9 for genetic variability parameters of eleven quantitative traits related to seed yield in Augmented Block Design. Analysis of variance showed that F3 progenies exhibit substantial variability for all the attributes considered in this study. The highest seed yield per plant was depicted by progenies A-74 (31.38 g), A-193 (30.60 g) and A-11 (29.08 g). High GCV and PCV values were observed for seed yield per plant, pods per plant, clusters per plant, branches per plant and harvest index, demonstrating the potential for improvement through selection. Plant height, branches per plant, clusters per plant, pods per plant, harvest index and seed yield per plant showed strong heritability in conjunction with high genetic advance. So, selection for such traits is recommended to improve black gram due to additive gene action.

Keywords

Variability, Heritability, Genetic advance, Augmented Block Design, Black gram, Urdbean

Conclusion

The entire research trial manifested that there is a lot of variation in the progenies for every attributes incorporated in this study. For all the traits, PCV was higher than the GCV but values are very close to each other, depicting that environment has little influence. Due to high heritability coupling with high genetic advance as per cent of mean (additive gene action), it will be simple to select for plant height, branches per plant, clusters per plant, pods per plant and harvest index, which will be helpful in future seed yield enhancement programmes of black gram breeding.

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V.B. Rana, J.P. Makati, Naresh Chaudhary, Rutvik J. Joshi, Shivangi Vanapariya, Zarna S. Shah, A.V. Malaviya and Sanyam Patel (2022). Evaluation of Genetic Variability Parameters in 185 F3 Progenies of Black Gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] for Seed Yield and Related Components. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(4): 1056-1060.