1Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Kolhapur-416004, Maharashtra, India
3Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, BHU, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: dansingh410@gmail.com
Online published on 13 May, 2016.
The mean performance and analysis of variance (ANOVA) was studied in a set of 40 genotypes on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). The experiment was carried out in a randomized block design with three replications during Rabi 2013–14 at Post Graduate Research Farm, College of Agriculture, Kolhapur. It is of great interest to consider the per se performance of different genotypes in respect of different quantitative characters of economic importance particularly earliness, number of secondary branches per plant, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, 100-seed weight and grain yield. The genotype IC-83429 and IC-83327 were found to be the earliest to flower. For secondary branches per plant IC-83340, Vijay, IC-83465 and Vishal had the maximum number of branches. The genotypes which had born the maximum number of pods per plant were IC-83429, IC-83321, Vishal and IC-83348. Highest yielding genotypes were Vijay, Vishal, IC-83429, IC-83348 and IC-83391. The analysis of variance for all the characters of forty genotypes revealed highly significant differences among the genotypes studied, indicating sufficient amount of variability present among the material genotypes tested.
Highlights
• On the basis of mean performance observed in the present study the six genotypes viz., IC-83429, Vishal, Vijay, IC-83340, IC-83372 and IC-83523 were found to be superior genotypes for further breeding programme.
Chickpea, mean performance, ANOVA, characters, genotypes
