Vol. 12, Issue 5 (2023)

Author(s):
SA Shendekar, VP Gulwane, T Venu Yadav, Banoth Madhu, MR Meshram, DP Gadpayale and MV Nagesh Kumar

Abstract:
Thirty-three groundnut genotypes were evaluated for various quantitative characters such as days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, fresh pod yield per plant, dry pod yield per plant, hundred seed weight, shelling percentage (%). Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among the genotypes for all the traits under controlled environment facility at 0.01 and 0.05 probability levels. The observations were recorded for six characters from three plants per genotype per replication in controlled environment facilities and mean were calculated. PCV was higher than the corresponding GCV for all the traits but the differences were small, indicating relatively less influence of the environment on these traits. High PCV and GCV values were recorded for fresh pod yield per plant, dry pod yield per plant and hundred seed weight. Days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, fresh pod yield per plant, dry pod yield per plant and hundred seed weight exhibited high heritability estimates. High genetic advance was recorded for fresh pod yield per plant, dry pod yield per plant, shelling percentage and hundred seed weight. Selection will be effective with character having high heritability and high genetic advance.