Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Shikha Upadhyay, Anita Babbar, Deepak Katkani and Shailendra Sagar Prajapati

Abstract:
The present studies were conducted to the estimation of correlation, variability and heritability for quantitative traits in advance breeding lines of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under randomized completely block design with three replications in the field of the department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, during the crop season 2020 -2021.Heritabilities for total number of pods per plant, number of effective pods per plant, hundred seed weight, biological yield and plant height were high than those for the other traits. The high heritability (92.7%) coupled with high genetic advance (51.4%) for the trait no of effective pod per plant followed by total no of pod per plant, hundred seed weight biological yield and seed yield per plant, these traits should be used as selection criteria while formulating breeding strategies Correlation studies showed positive and significant (p<0.05) relationships between seed yield per plant, secondary branch per plant, total number of pods per plant, number of effective pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, hundred seed weight, biological yield and harvest index. Days to maturity, days to 50% flowering, height of first fruiting node plant height and primary branches per plant was negative and non-significantly correlated with seed yield per plant at phenotypic levels.