Author(s): Sakshi Vilas Ingle, Suraj S Pokale, Sudhir A Patil and Gopal D Nawale

Abstract: The investigation was undertaken during rabi 2022 at the Research farm of Agricultural Botany Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur to estimate the genetic parameters among 55 genotypes of lathyrus. These 55 genotypes were grown in RBD. The ANOVA shows the presence of considerable genetic variation among 55 genotypes for eight characters studied. The phenotypic coefficient of variation was higher than the genotypic coefficient of variation for all the characters which shows the effect of environment on the characters. The GCV was recorded high for number of pods plant^-1 (25.34%), yield plant^-1 (22.44%). The PCV was high for number of pods plant^-1 (26.27%), yield plant^-1 (22.67%), High heritability values coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean showing high to high heritability estimates were observed for the characters viz., yield plant^-1 (98.00%, 45.75%) number of pods plant^-1 (93.00%, 50.34%), 100 seed weight (83%, 22.59%), number of seeds pod^-1 (78%, 22.26%). Thus, the high heritability with high genetic advance confirmed the presence of additive gene effect for all the studied characters and hence can be enhanced through selection.

DOI: 10.33545/26174693.2024.v8.i3f.753