Genetic analysis for yield and its components in hybrid pigeonpea

  • Ch.Sreelakshmi, C.V.Sameer Kumar and D.Shivani
Keywords: Hybrid pigeonpea, divergence, variability

Abstract

Mahalanobis D2 statistics was applied to assess the divergence among the 36 hybrids and three checks of pigeonpea. The hybrids were grouped into nine clusters, where cluster I was the largest containing twenty one hybrids followed by cluster II with seven hybrids. The inter cluster distance was maximum between cluster III and VIII followed by III and VI and seed yield contributed the most (22.2) towards genetic divergence. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean was noticed for seed yield, number of primary branches per plant and secondary branches per plant suggesting additive gene action controlling these traits. Seed yield showed positive correlation with all the characters studied except 100-seed weight. Genotypic path analysis revealed that the maximum direct effect on seed yield was exhibited by number of primary branches per plant, days to 50% flowering and number of pods per plant.
Published
30-09-2011
How to Cite
Ch.Sreelakshmi, C.V.Sameer Kumar and D.Shivani
Genetic analysis for yield and its components in hybrid pigeonpea. 2011. Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2 3, 413-416. Retrieved from https://ejplantbreeding.org/index.php/EJPB/article/view/973
Issue
Vol 2 No 3 (2011)
Section
Research Note

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