Study the performance of different genotypes in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

Abstract

Thirty genotypes of chickpea germplasm along with three checks were evaluated in partially reclaimed soil under late sown and irrigated conditions. The characters studied were days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, number of primary branches per plant, number of secondary branches per plant, plant height, number of seeds/pods, 100-seed weight, harvest index, biological yield and Seed yield per plant. The variance due to plots was non-significant for most the characters except plant height and seed yield, which show highly significant at 1% probability level. However, the variation due to check was found highly significant at 1% probability level for days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, number of seeds per plant, plant height, 100-seed weight, biological yield and number of pods per plant. While rest of the characters (Viz., primary branches per plant and secondary branches per plant were found non-significant and in check significant character under investigation indicating the presence adequate variability. Among the thirty chickpea genotypes Bidhan Chola 1, GCP 105, GNG 2207, GNG 38, GNG 312, GNG 0703, GNG 0820, GNG 1001 and GNG 1013 and GNG 1969 also possessed high mean performance for most of the quantitative traits. The genotypes mentioned above and some other genotypes having high mean performance for characters may be used as donor parents in hybridization programme for improving the characters for which they showed high mean performance.