“…The number of panicle and secondary branches per panicle exhibited moderate GCV and high PCV. Similar results were reported for flag leaf area (Saha et al, 2019), the number of spikelets (Saha et al, 2019), the number of grain (Yadav et al, 2018), test weight (Chandramohan et al, 2016), grain yield (Bhati et al, 2015;Mamata et al, 2018;Keerthiraj and Biju, 2020), plant height (Manjunatha et al, 2017;Pragnya et al, 2018), days to flowering (Behera et al, 2018), length of panicle (Pragnya et al, 2018). The large difference between PCV and GCV values for the number of panicles, flag leaf area, the number of secondary branches per panicle, spikelet fertility and seed yield is due to the greater contribution of the environment in the expression of these characters.…”