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The present investigation was undertaken with the objective to estimate the interrelationship of characters for seed yield in early maturing genotypes of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.). The material consisted of twenty-one pigeon pea genotypes among which nineteen were early maturing genotypes received from ICRISAT (The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Hyderabad and two were local varieties collected from BNCA, AAU (Biswanath Chariali College of Agriculture, Assam Agricultural University), Jorhat. The experiment was conducted during kharif 2017-18 in randomized block design (RBD) with three replications at ICR farm, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat. The estimates of genotypic correlations, in general, were found higher than the corresponding phenotypic correlation coefficients indicating strong association between two characters but the phenotypic values were lessened by the influence of environment. The seed yield per plant had shown significant positive correlation with plant height, pods per plant, pod length and harvest index both at phenotypic and genotypic level. Pods per plant and pod length had shown high positive direct effects on seed yield per plant at both genotypic and phenotypic level. At genotypic level, days to first flowering exhibited maximum positive direct effect on seed yield per plant. Pods per plant and pod length had shown high direct effects on seed yield/plant and hence direct selection for these traits may contribute towards improvement in seed yield/plant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An experiment comprising of twenty four diverse Faba bean genotypes were evaluated for genetic variability, correlation and path coefficient analysis for pod yield and its contributing traits. Phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation were highest for pod yield per plant (PCV= 55.87% and GCV= 53.90%). Pod yield per plant was significantly and positively correlated with plant height, number of primary branches, pod length, pod width, pod weight and number of pods per plant at genotypic level. Number of pods per plant showed the highest positive direct effect (0.845) on pod yield per plant. Days to fifty per cent flowering, days to first pod picking, plant height, number of primary branches, pod width and number of pods per plant appeared as most important characters and could be considered during selection in Faba bean breeding programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An experiment was conducted in fifty seven pigeonpea genotypes to study the variability, correlation and path coefficient in pigeonpea at Department of Pulses, Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during kharif, 2015. The highest GCV was recorded for number of secondary branches/plant (111.73) followed by number of pods/plant (40.73). Heritability in broad sense ranged from 94.66 (pod size) to 99.93 (number of pods per plant). High genetic advance were observed for number of secondary branches/plant (230.00), number of pods per plant (83.88), single plant yield (80.89) and number of racemes (60.41) indicating the prevalence of additive gene action for inheritance of these traits. Character association studies indicated that number of racemes, number of secondary branches, number of primary branches per plant, clusters per plant, pods per plant, pod length, seeds per pod, and 100 seed weight were strongly associated with seed yield. Path coefficient analysis revealed that days to 50 per cent flowering and number of pods per plant had high positive direct effect on seed yield. Pod size had moderate direct effect on seed yield. Hence due emphasis should be given on number of pods per plant for improvement of seed yield in pigeonpea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present investigation was undertaken to study the extent of interrelationship and direct and indirect effect of component characters on seed yield in a set of 20 genotypes of greengram. The material was evaluated in randomized block design with three replications during the Kharif, 2017. Observations were recorded for 13 quantitative characters. Correlation coefficient analysis revealed that seed yield per plant exhibit significant positive correlation with number of pods per plant, biological yield per plant, harvest index, plant height, number of seeds per pod, pod length, number of clusters per plant, seed index. Harvest index, biological yield per plant, number of pods per plant, seed index, number of seeds per pod, plant height and number of clusters per plant exhibited positive direct effect accompanied by significant positive correlation with seed yield. Thus priority should be given to these characters during selection for greengram yield improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]