Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai – 625 104, India
*Email: prakashmscagri@gmail.com
Online published on 12 January, 2015.
An investigation was carried out with 65 indigenous and exotic barnyard millet germplasm to study the correlation between grain yield and its components traits. Results of correlation analysis indicated that the grain yield per plant was found to be highly significant and positively correlated with straw yield per plant, single earhead weight, plant height, flag leaf width, 1000 grain weight, earhead length, flag leaf length, earhead width and number racemes. Selection based on these characters may be helpful in planning efficient breeding programme.
Barnyard millet, grain yield and correlation
