Components of Recoverable Sugar and Path Analysis in Diploid Varieties of Sugarbeet

Eighteen diploid, multigerm, varieties of sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) were studied for phenotypic and genotypic correlations and associations between recoverable sugar yield and its components by path analysis. In general, phenotypic and genotypic correlations showed the same bend bat genotypic correlations were of higher magnitude than phenotypic. Recoverable sugar was significantly correlated with root yield and root length. Sucrose showed significant positive correlation with purity and recovery. It was repeated by path analysis that root yield/ha, sucrose and purity are of utmost importance for contributing to recoverable sugar yield in diploid genotypes under Indian agroclimatic conditions.