Interrelationships among yield and yield components in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under irrigated and rainfed conditions

Abstract

, seed weight pod -1 , 100-grain weight, above ground biomass, seed yield and harvest index. The results of correlation analysis showed that seed yield plant -1 had strong positive genotypic association with pods plant -1 , seed weight pod -1 , 100 seed weight and biological yield under both production environments and high positive genotypic association with secondary branches plant -1 , seeds pod -1 , biological yield and harvest index under irrigated condition only. Path coefficient analysis confirmed the true relationship of pods plant -1 , seed weight pod -1 , under irrigated condition and seed weight pod -1 , harvest index and above ground biomass under rainfed condition. Hence, these characters could be used as selection criterion for further improvement in seed yield of chickpea.

Genetic divergence, variability and character association analysis in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes under normal and late sown conditions

“…plant showed a significant positive association with plant height, the number of pods per plant, the number of seeds per plant and the number of branches per plant in both the environments, whereas in environment I it showed a significantly and negative association with harvest index. Similar findings were also earlier reported by Dawane et al (2020), Jan et al (2021) and Xalxo et al (2021).…”