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Legume Research, volume 37 issue 5 (october 2014) : 556-558

PHENOTYPIC VARIABILITY IN GRASS PEA (LATHYRUS SATIVuS L.) GERMPLASM OF VIDARBHA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA, India

Nilamani Dikshit, * M. Abdul Nizar, N. Sivaraj1
1National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Akola-444 104, India
Cite article:- Dikshit Nilamani, Nizar Abdul M. *, Sivaraj1 N. (2024). PHENOTYPIC VARIABILITY IN GRASS PEA (LATHYRUS SATIVuS L.) GERMPLASM OF VIDARBHA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA, India . Legume Research. 37(5): 556-558. doi: 10.5958/0976-0571.2014.00676.6.
Sixty five accessions of grass pea germplasm of eastern Vidarbha region of Maharashtra revealed wide variability in morphological characteristics. Shannon diversity index varied from 0.2711 to 1.1433 among the accessions. Moderate CV was observed for plant height (19.58%), 100 seed weight (14.82%), number of primary branches (14.07 %) and number of seeds per pod (13.94 %). Pearson correlation coefficient indicated that the pod length demonstrated positive and significant correlation with seeds per pod and days to maturity was highly and significantly correlated with test seed weight (P
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