Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
K Pallavi, P Irene Vethamoni, L Nalina, K Rajamani, S Geethanjali and P Meenakshisundaram

Abstract:
An experiment was carried out on glory lily genotypes to study the genetic variability, and relationship among yield traits. Analysis of variance showed that the genotypes significantly differed for all the growth and yield parameters studied. From the variability analysis, it is found that all the traits have higher phenotypic coefficient of variation than the genotypic coefficient of variation. High heritability has plant height, stem girth, number of leaves/plant, leaf length, leaf width, number of branches/ plant, days to flowering, days to 50% flowering, number of flowers/plant, petiole length, fresh pod weight, dry seed weight, pod diameter, number of pods/ plant, fresh pod yield/plant, fresh seed yield/plant, pod setting percentage, fresh seed recovery, dry seed recovery, 100 fresh seed weight, 100 dry seed weight and dry seed yield per plant. Path coefficient analysis revealed that the fresh seed yield/plant, fresh pod weight and leaf length, husk weight, fresh pod yield/plant, pod setting percentage, fresh seed recovery, dry seed recovery, number of branches per plant, leaf width, pod diameter, number of pods per plant are the most important characters for selection and selection based on these traits would be more rewarding for improvement of glory lily. Hence selection for these morphological traits can be useful for yield improvement in glory lily.