Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the genetic advance, heritability, and genetic variability of twenty-nine genotypes for ten traits. Plant height, days to maturity, number of branches per plant, and number of pods per plant showed a wide range of mean values among the genotypes, indicating the presence of a high amount of variability among the genotypes and providing the potential for different yield-contributing characters to be improved in soybean. For the number of pods per plant, several pods per cluster, seed yield per row, and seed yield per plant, high estimates of GCV and PCV were noted. All of the traits under study showed higher heritability estimates. The percentage of mean genetic advance was found to be high for traits like the number of pods per plant, plant height, and seed yield per plant and row, but low to moderate for traits like the number of branches per plant and oil content.