Vol. 12, Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
SC Vimal, Rajesh Kumar, Rishabh Gupta, Ajeet Kumar Gupta and Jay Singh

Abstract:
The experimental materials consisting of seeds of 30 genotypes along with three check varieties (Pant G-186, Udai and BG-372) of chickpea were used for experimentation under Randomized Block Design (RBD) at Genetics and Plant Breeding Farm, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya (UP). The observations on the following traits was recorded as per guidelines. Days to 50% flowering, Days to maturity, Number of primary branches/plant, Number of secondary branches/plant, Plant height (cm), Number of pods/plant, Number of seeds/pod, Harvest index, Biological yield per plant (g), 100-seed weight (g), Seed yield/plant (g). The data were recorded on eleven characters to estimate mean, range, and least significant differences, correlations. The seed yield per plant showed highly significant and positive correlation with number of seeds per pod (0.459), number of Pods per plant (0.748), Biological yield (0.902) and Harvest index (0.732). The correlation coefficient of seed yield per plant with remaining nine characters was registered non-significant. Among the thirty chickpea genotypes Bidhan Chola 1, GCP 105, GNG 2207, GNG 38, GNG 312, GNG 0703, GNG 0820, GNG 1001 and GNG 1013 and GNG 1969 also possessed high mean performance for most of the seed qualitative and quantitative traits. The genotypes mentioned above and some other genotypes having high mean performance for characters may be used as donor parents in hybridization programme for improving the characters for which they showed high mean performance.