Abstract
The study pertaining to the evaluation of selection criteria in chickpea using correlation coefficients and path analysis was carried out in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad for a period of two years. Experimental material comprised of twenty chickpea genotypes. The genotypes demonstrated highly significant differences (P<0.01) for all the traits studied. The results of correlation analysis revealed that that grain yield plant-1 had significant genotypic and highly significant phenotypic relationship with primary branches, pods plant-1, seeds plant-1, seeds pod-1 and total biological yield. The path coefficient analysis based on grain yield plant-1, as a dependent variable, exposed that all of the other traits, except days to flowering, days to maturity and secondary branches exhibited positive direct effects. The path analysis confirmed that biological yield followed by number of seeds pod-1, 100-grain weight, had the maximum positive direct influence on grain yield plant-1. Therefore, this study suggested that chickpea improvement progarmme could be based on these characters as selection criteria.
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Claim · model-written summary
Grain yield per plant had significant genotypic and highly significant phenotypic relationships with primary branches, pods per plant and seeds per plant.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume1 - Material
- twenty chickpea genotypese1
- Outcome
- grain yield plant-1e0
- Qualifier
- significant genotypic and highly significant phenotypic relationship with primary branches, pods plant-1, seeds plant-1e0
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Verbatim
e0“grain yield plant-1 had significant genotypic and highly significant phenotypic relationship with primary branches, pods plant-1, seeds plant-1, seeds pod-1 and total biological yield”
e1“Experimental material comprised of twenty chickpea genotypes”
Claim · model-written summary
In path analysis on grain yield per plant, all other traits except days to flowering, days to maturity and secondary branches had positive direct effects.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume1 - Material
- twenty chickpea genotypese1
- Outcome
- direct effectse0
- Direction
- positivee0
- Qualifier
- except days to flowering, days to maturity and secondary branchese0
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Verbatim
e0“The path coefficient analysis based on grain yield plant-1, as a dependent variable, exposed that all of the other traits, except days to flowering, days to maturity and secondary branches exhibited positive direct effects”
e1“Experimental material comprised of twenty chickpea genotypes”
Claim · model-written summary
Biological yield, followed by number of seeds per pod and 100-grain weight, had the maximum positive direct influence on grain yield per plant.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume1 - Material
- twenty chickpea genotypese1
- Outcome
- direct influence on grain yield plant-1e0
- Direction
- maximume0
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Verbatim
e0“The path analysis confirmed that biological yield followed by number of seeds pod-1, 100-grain weight, had the maximum positive direct influence on grain yield plant-1”
e1“Experimental material comprised of twenty chickpea genotypes”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest chickpea improvement programmes could use these characters as selection criteria.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinume0 - Outcome
- selection criteriae0
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Verbatim
e0“this study suggested that chickpea improvement progarmme could be based on these characters as selection criteria”