1Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalya, Palampur-176 062 (Himachal Pradesh).
2Advanced Centre of Hill Bio-resources and Biotechnology, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalya, Palampur-176 062 (Himachal Pradesh).
3Seed Production Unit, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalya, Palampur-176 062 (Himachal Pradesh).
Sixty three landraces collected from different parts of Himachal Pradesh were evaluated in an Augmented Block Design having four checks at experimental farm of Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, CSK HPKY, pillampur (Himachal Pradesh) The variability was assessed on the basis of 12 morpho-agronomical characters. It was observed that sufficient genetic diversity was present for days to maturity, plant height and number of pods/plant. Among the qualitative traits maximum diversity was observed for leaf colour. Disease reaction against Colletotrichum truncatum under field conditions revealed that most of the lines were found resistant to bean anthracnose. On the basis of evaluation data lines namely HPKC-1, HPKC-6, HPKC-7, HPKC-9, HPKM-51 and DMK-12 were found to be potential lines which can be exploited as a variety or can be used in future hybridization programme.
Horsegram, Macrotyloma uniflorum, Evaluation, Characterization, Germplasm
