Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
RA Jadhav, SP Mehtre, DK Patil and VK Gite

Abstract:
Mung bean is very main pulse crop of India next to red gram and gram. The experimentation was conducted at Agricultural Research Station, Badnapur in kharif 2017. The material for present study comprised of 70 mung bean breeding lines. These lines were evaluated for different 20 traits. In present study, the outcomes of correlation analysis recommends that plant traits like pods per cluster, 100-seed weight, shelling percentage and biological yield per plant showed extremely significant and positive association with seed yield per plant at both phenotypic and genotypic level. This suggests that at the time of selection for enhancement in seed yield these characters can be remember, provided the character should have high variability, as variability is the basis for selection. The character seed hardness showed significant negative correlation with seed yield per plant. While results of path analysis indicated that character pod length had highest direct effect on seed yield per plant subsequently harvest index, 100-seed weight, biological yield per plant, days to shattering, protein content, calcium content, clusters per plant, pods per cluster, both at genotypic and phenotypic level, while pods per plant and seed hardness at genotypic level only. The negative direct effects were showed by days to maturity, days to 50% flowering, plant height, leaf length and seeds per pod both at genotypic and phenotypic level. Similarly negative direct effects were showed by primary branches per plant, leaf width, shelling percentage at genotypic level and pods per plant and seed hardness at phenotypic level.