Vol. 11, Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
Rahul Kumar, Rohit Kumar Mahto, Rajesh Kumar, Manisha Saini and Akshay Talukdar

Abstract:
Soybean is one of the most important crops in the world. Plant breeders' primary focus while attempting to increase soybean production is on characteristics that affect yield. This is because characteristics relating to seed size and shape play a key role in determining seed weight and yield in soybean. Seed appearance, quality, and yield in soybeans are determined by traits related to seed size, such as seed length (SL), seed width (SW), and seed height (SH); seed volume (SV); and seed shape traits, such as seed length to width ratio (SLW), seed length to height ratio (SLH), and seed width to height ratios (SWH). In this study, we discovered that among the 25 soybean genotypes evaluated, there were notable differences in the characteristics of seeds, including SL, SW, SH, SV, SLW, SLH, SWH, and 100SW. Ten varieties of soybeans were reported to be larger (> 14 g/100 seeds), while fifteen were medium-sized (13.99 g/100 seeds). In this study, six round genotypes and nineteen elliptical genotypes of soybean were reported. The results of this study open up the possibility of choosing parents with acceptable traits for hybridization and breeding projects aimed at soybean genetic improvement.