1Dept. of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SVPUA, Meerut
2Dept. of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CSAUT, Kanpur
Online published on 28 January, 2020.
The experiments were conducted at Students Instructional Farm and in seed technology laboratory of CSAUA&T, Kanpur over two growing Seasons of Rabi during 2016–2017 and 2017–18. A total of twenty five genotypes of oat were evaluated under field for sixteen and controlled conditions for four traits to measure the genetic variability. All of the genotypes were characterized according to twenty quantitative and seed traits. The genotypes differed significantly for all the traits studied and relatively wide range of mean for all traits indicated the presence of variation among the tested genotypes. High phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation, high heritability coupled with genetic advance as percent of mean based on pooled analysis revealed for seedling dry weight per plant and seed vigour index indicating that simple selection could be effective.
