Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam).
The present investigation was carried out with forty diverse ramie genotypes to evaluate their performance for fibre yield per plant and other yield attributes. The mean performance estimates revealed that amongst the forty genotypes, four genotypes namely SC-12, R-1420, SC-7 and R-67-34 exhibited high mean performance for fibre yield per plant over all the environments. The genotypes SC-12 and SC-7 also exhibited high mean performance for all other remaining traits. Of these, four genotypes, R-1420 recorded high mean performance for all the traits except number of leaves, fresh weight of plant and cane while the genotype R-67-34 exhibited high mean performance for all the traits except plant height, number of leaves and leaf area. These genotypes deserve consideration for further improvement and as parents in hybridization programme.
Ramie, Bochmeria nivea, fibre yield, mean performance, yield attributes
