Vol. 10, Issue 5 (2021)

Author(s):
KD Bhoite, DV Kusalkar, KM Sonawane, SD Patil, HM Patil and SR Pardeshi

Abstract:
A field experiment was carried out on Niger germplasm at the Zonal Agriculture Research Station, Igatpuri during Kharif 2019. Analysis of variance revealed that the mean sum of square due to genotypes were highly significant for all the characters except days to 50% flowering indicating the existence of sufficient amount of variability among the genotypes The traits viz., seed yield per plot, number of branches per plant, number of capitula per plant and number seeds per capitula observed moderate heritability with high genetic advance reveals that these characters are governed by non additive gene effects. Hence selection may be effective in such cases.