Vol. 11, Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Munukutla Santhoshi Sesha Kiranmayi, Ayodhya Prasad Pandey, Rajbeer Singh Gaur and Ashutosh Gupta

Abstract:
The present experiment was laid out with 15 cultivars of finger millet in a Randomized block design in AKS University, Satna, during Kharif on July 2020. Data were collected on thirteen characters viz., days to 1st flowering, days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, no. of tillers / plant, 1000 seed weight, earhead length, finger length, finger width, flag leaf blade length, flag leaf blade width, biological yield and seed yield per plant. The highest estimates of coefficients of variation were registered for flag leaf blade length followed by, plant height and flag leaf blade width. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance was observed for plant height only indicated the predominance of additive gene action in the expression of these traits. The analysis of variance indicated the existence of sufficient amount of variability among genotypes for all the characters and can be improved through individual plant selection.