Four hundred and sixty eight (468) mungbean germplasm lines were evaluated in kharif season during 2001 and 2002 at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. The evaluated germplasm lines included 87 exotic and 381 indigenous collections. Wide range of variability was recorded in the studied qualitative traits like growth habit, growth pattern, leaf colour, leaf shape, internode length and seedling vigour. The descriptive statistics generated from quantitative traits (days to 50% flowering, number of primary branches, plant height (cm), number of clusters per plant, number of pods per cluster, number of pods per plant, pod length (cm), number of seeds per pod, seed yield per plant (gm), 100 seed weight (gm) and days to maturity) revealed adequate variability in the studied germplasm lines. Genotype PLM 694 exhibited high number of primary branches/plant, pods/plant, clusters/plant and optimum seed yield/plant. For higher 100 seed weight the promising genotypes identified were EC 52195, EC 52194, PLM 59 etc. Nine genotype Viz. P312, VC 2777-21-B-B-3-B, EC 146298, EC 146323A, EC 146323B, EC 146328 B, ML 610, Ganga-2 and TARM-1 were tolerant against mungbean yellow mosaic virus.
Germplasm evaluation, Genetic variability, Mungbean
