Regional Agricultural Research Station, Lam, Guntur - 522 034, India
* Paper presented at International Chickpea Conference- January, 2003 held at Raipur, Chattisgarh, India.
Thirty promising genotypes of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) were evaluated for stability parameters to identify genotypes with reasonable degree of stability for yield and its components. Significant differences were observed due to genotypes, environments and genotype x environment (linear) interaction for all the traits. However genotype x environment (non-linear) was found to be non significant for plant height, harvest index and yield per plant. Five genotypes viz., 'Phule-G 95311′, 'ICCC 42′, 'ICCV 95334′, 'Pusa 390′ and 'Pusa 362′ were sorted out with high seed yield (higher than grand mean over environments) alongwith stability for yield and other yield contributing traits on the basis of bi= 1.00 and S2di = O.
