Vol. 11, Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Easton Lourembam, Pranabjyoti Sarma, L Wangchu, Siddhartha Singh, Chandra Deo, Bapsila Loitongbam, BN Hazarika, P Debnath, Punabati Heisnam and Oinam Bidyalami

Abstract:
The present experiment was conducted at Vegetable Research Farm, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, East Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India during Rabi reason 2021-2022 to investigate ‘’Assessment of Morphological Characters of Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) genotypes grown in Manipur’’. These morphological characters revealed the wide variation among the twenty-one locally available genotypes. Qualitative characters such as growth habit, anthocyanin colouration in stem, leaf shape, and melanin spot in wing, colour of melanin spot in wing, seed shape and black pigmentation in hilum of dry seed were recorded. Quantitative characters such as days to germination, days to first flowering, days to 50% flowering, days to first pod, first podding height (cm), leaf length (cm), leaf width (cm), leaf area (cm²), number of stem per plant, number of leaflet per leaf, number of pods per node, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, pod length (cm), pod width (cm), plant height (cm), 100 seed weight (g) and yield per plant (g) were studied. The mean performance revealed that CHF FaB-13 gave highest yield per plant (126.98), highest 100 seed weight in CHF FaB-13 (97.70), longest pod length in CHF FaB-13 (12.40), longest pod width in CHF FaB-13 (2.27), maximum number pods bear per node in CHF FaB-13 (4.00), maximum number of pods per plant in CHF FaB-13 (19.67). The minimum days to first flowering were recorded in genotypes CHF FaB-5 (42.00) and lowest number of days taken for 50% flowering was found in genotypes CHF FaB-5 (48.67).