Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2022)

Author(s):
Muthuswamy A, Jayamani P and Kumaresan D

Abstract:
Greengram is the third most important food legume crop in India serving as the major source of low-cost protein to the resource poor people of developing countries. The current investigation of preliminary yield trial on genetic variability involving twenty genotypes were carried out in Kharif, 2018 at Department of pulses, TNAU, Coimbatore. The morpho-agronomic traits viz., days to 50 per cent flowering, days to maturity, plant height (cm), number of branches, number of pods per plant, hundred seed weight (g) and grain yield per plot were recorded and genetic parameters viz., PCV, GCV, heritability and genetic advance as per cent of mean were studied. Of the seven traits studied, grain yield, hundred seed weight, plant height, number of pods and number of branches recorded high heritability and genetic advance indicating the selection for the above traits will be effective. COGG-17-03 recorded highest yield followed by COGG-17-16 and COGG-17-01.