Vol. 12, Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
PS Kamble, RB Ghorade, AR Bhuyar, Ashok Badigannavar, VV Kalpande, SB Thawari and Shradha S Aherkar

Abstract:
Increasing knowledge of sorghum nutrition has lead to investigation of parching sorghum (Hurda) varieties by mutation studies. The present work was carried out to study the high yielding parching sorghum mutants of the genotypes Gulbhendi and Sakari Mokari. The experiment was carried out at Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola and Agricultural Research Station, Ekarjuna in collaboration with the BARC, Mumbai during the years 2015-16 to 2017-18 in 49 Gulbhendi and Sakari Mokari mutants each, along with the check Gulbhendi and Sakari Mokari, respectively. As compared to the Gulbhendi check maximum hurda yield per panicle for Gulbhendi mutant was recorded in mutants Gulbhendi Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-16-6-3-2 followed by Gulbhendi Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-26-1-5-2, Gulbhendi Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-35-3-3-1, Gulbhendi Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-19-2-3-1 and Gulbhendi Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-42-4-1-1 and for the Sakari Mokari mutants the maximum seed weight per panicle was observed by Sakari Mokari Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-18-1-2-1 followed by Sakari Mokari Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-51-1-4-1, Sakari Mokari Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-43-4-1-2 and Sakari Mokari Mutant 300 Gy selection No.-32-3-2-1 in comparison to Sakari Mokari check. Phenotypic coefficient of variance was recorded higher than genotypic coefficient of variance for both the genotypes under study indicating a preferential influence of environment on the genotype. The variability studies showed the heritability of 68.57% for Gulbhendi mutants and 52.54% for Sakari Mokari mutants seed yield per panicle which was observed to be moderate for both the genotypes mutants.