Chief Editor:

Arvind kumar

Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural Uni., Jhansi, U.P., INDIA

Frequency:Bi-monthly

Indexing:

BIOSIS Preview, Biological Abstracts, Elsevier (Scopus and Embase), AGRICOLA, Google Scholar, CrossR...

GENETIC VARIABILITY, HERITABILITY AND GENETIC ADVANCE FOR QUANTITATIVE TRAITS IN SORGHUM GERMPLASM

Y.N. Warkad, N.R. Potdukhe, A.M. Dethe*, P.A. Kahate, R.R. Kotgire

Affiliations

¹Department of Agricultural Botany, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola-444 104, India

Submitted|
First Online |
doi

Cite article:- Warkad Y.N., Potdukhe N.R., Dethe* A.M., Kahate P.A., Kotgire R.R. (2025). GENETIC VARIABILITY, HERITABILITY AND GENETIC ADVANCE FOR QUANTITATIVE TRAITS IN SORGHUM GERMPLASM. Agricultural Science Digest. 28(3): 165 - 169. doi: .

ABSTRACT

Genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance were studied in sixty-four sorghum germplasm accessions collected from various districts of Vidarbha region. Significant genetic variability was observed among the genotypes studied. Highest PCV and GCV values were observed for dry fodder yield per plant followed by earhead breadth and length, grain yield per plant, stem girth and 1000 seed weight. In the present investigation, high heritability accompanied with high genetic advance over mean was observed for the characters- grain and dry fodder yield, stem girth, earhead length and breadth, suggesting the influence of additive genes and provides scope for selection. Also, high value of heritability alongwith low genetic advance over mean were observed for the characters days to maturity and number of leaves per plant indicating that variability is mainly due to the non-additive gene effects and hence heterosis breeding can be fruitfully exploited in improving such characters.

KEYWORDS

REFERENCES

Amirthadevarathinam, A. et al.(1990). Madras Agric. J. 77(9-12): 462-464.
Burton, G.W. (1951). Agron. J. 43: 409-417.
Can, N.K. et al. (1998). J. Faculty Aguic. Lexushu Univ. (Japan) 43(1-2): 25-30.
Dadheech, A. et al. (1999). Crop Res. 18(3): 409-411.
Geleta, N. et al. (2005). Crop Res. 30(3): 439-445.
Johnson, H.W. et al. (1955) Agron. J. 47: 314-318.
Kishore N. and Singh L.N. (2005). Crop Res. 29(2): 252-258.
Kumar, R. and Singh K.D. (1986). Form. Sci. J. 1(1-2): 40-51.
Lush, J.L. (1949). Biometrical Studies in Plant Breeding. Kalyani Publ., New Delhi.
Narkhede, B.N. et al. (2000). J. Maharashtra Agric. Univ. 25(3): 300-302.
Sankarapandian, R. et al.(1996). Madras Agric. J. 83(10): 625-628.

Disclaimer :

All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Copyright :

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.