Abstract
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop widely cultivated in the arid and semiarid regions in the world. Therefore it is worthy to be subjected to crop improvement programs. Germplasm collection and characterization are preliminary and important steps in crop improvement programmes. This study was conducted to characterize randomly selected 24 finger millet germplasm accessions conserved at the plant Genetic Resource Centre, Gannoruwa, Sri Lanka using 14 quantitative characters. The maximum positive and significant coefficient of variation was observed between weight of grain per ear and weight of sun dried ear. Phenotypic correlation between weight of grain per ear was highly significant and positively associated with days to flowering, flag leaf width, flag leaf length, plant height, culm thickness, finger length, finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried ears, flag leaf width, flag leaf length, plant height, culm thickness, finger length, finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried ears. The principal component analysis revealed that the first five component with Eigen values greater than 0.87 contributed about 85.5% of total variability. The twenty for finger millet accessions grouped in to four main clusters in the cluster analysis. Results of cluster analysis could be used in the crop breeding and conservation programmes.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Grain weight per ear was positively associated with days to flowering, flag leaf width and flag leaf length.
- Taxon
- Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracanae0 - Treatment
- weight of grain per eare3
- Outcome
- days to flowering, flag leaf width, flag leaf lengthe3
- Direction
- positively associatede3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop”
e3“Phenotypic correlation between weight of grain per ear was highly significant and positively associated with days to flowering, flag leaf width, flag leaf length, plant height, culm thickness, finger length, finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried ears”
Claim · model-written summary
Grain weight per ear was positively associated with plant height, culm thickness and finger length.
- Taxon
- Eleusine coracanaEleusine coracanae0
- Treatment
- weight of grain per eare3
- Outcome
- plant height, culm thickness, finger lengthe3
- Direction
- positively associatede3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop”
e3“Phenotypic correlation between weight of grain per ear was highly significant and positively associated with days to flowering, flag leaf width, flag leaf length, plant height, culm thickness, finger length, finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried ears”
Claim · model-written summary
Grain weight per ear was positively associated with finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried ears.
- Taxon
- Eleusine coracanaEleusine coracanae0
- Treatment
- weight of grain per eare3
- Outcome
- finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried earse3
- Direction
- positively associatede3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop”
e3“Phenotypic correlation between weight of grain per ear was highly significant and positively associated with days to flowering, flag leaf width, flag leaf length, plant height, culm thickness, finger length, finger width, days to maturity and weight of sun dried ears”
Claim · model-written summary
The first five principal components explained about 85.5% of total variability among the accessions.
- Taxon
- Eleusine coracanaEleusine coracanae0
- Outcome
- total variabilitye4
- Value
- about 85.5%e4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop”
e4“the first five component with Eigen values greater than 0.87 contributed about 85.5% of total variability”
Claim · model-written summary
The twenty finger millet accessions grouped into four main clusters.
- Taxon
- Eleusine coracanaEleusine coracanae0
- Outcome
- grouped in to four main clusterse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop”
e5“The twenty for finger millet accessions grouped in to four main clusters”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend using the cluster analysis results in crop breeding and conservation programmes.
- Taxon
- Eleusine coracanaEleusine coracanae0
- Outcome
- crop breeding and conservation programmese6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) is a highly nutritious and important food crop”
e6“Results of cluster analysis could be used in the crop breeding and conservation programmes”