Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Rumit Patel, Juned Memon, Dipak A Patel, Kalpesh V Patel and Arna Das

Abstract:
Maize is considered as queen of cereals. Present investigation is performed to investigate the presence of variability in the group of maize germplasms. Fifty-one genotypes were grown in two replicate with randomized complete block design. Analysis of variance revealed the presence of higher amount of genetic variability for most of the characters while further assessment through genetic variability analysis revealed that grain yield per plant and ears per plant mainly governed by the additive gene action with moderate heritability with high genetic advance while no of kernels per row was found low heritable with moderate genetic advance suggest the preponderance of the dominant gene action. These few characters were improved through exploitation of heterosis while rest of the characters governed by the additive gene action may improve by the selection from the segregating population.