Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, J. N. Agricultural University, Jabalpur
Online published on 25 January, 2012.
Two hundred seventy three near homogenous lines of pigeon pea were evaluated for 14 agronomic characters and 260 of these for 3 seed quality characters (protein content, cooking time and density). The variation was analysed in three maturity groups (early, upto 150 days, medium, 151–200 days and late above 200 days). The ratio of reproductive to vegetative phase was similar (⋅71 and ⋅70) for medium and late types, which explained the equal or higher productivity of medium types as compared to late types. The range of variation for some important characters was: height 104⋅0 to 235⋅6 cm, width 17⋅0 to 106⋅6 cm, pods per plant 74⋅4 to 479⋅8, 100 seed weight 3⋅60 to 12⋅96 gm, yield per plant 8 ⋅ 93 to 96 ⋅ 88 gm, protein percent 13 ⋅ 46 to 20 ⋅ 93, time taken to cook 32 to 54 minutes and seed density 0 ⋅ 685 to 1 ⋅ 690.
