Vol. 8, Issue 6 (2019)

Author(s):
Genotypes Lydia J and Ponnuswami V

Abstract:
The correlation study is an important aspect in the selection programme and can make the breeder to select the correlated and uncorrelated response. The experimental material consisted of 31 diverse genotypes collected from different places of India and the experiment was conducted at Western block, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulamduring two seasons of August, 2013 to November, 2013 and December, 2013 to March, 2014 and experiment was laid out under Randomized Block Design with three replications. Plant height had positive significant correlation, whereas positive non significant correlation was found for characters such as germination percentage, internodal length, days to flowering, bud diameter, buds per plant, number of flowers, flower diameter, flower stalk length, flower stalk girth, shelf life and individual flower weight.