Vol. 9, Issue 7, Part B (2025)

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), an allohexaploid (2n=6x=42), is the principal food crop of worldwide importance. It is also a crop where traditional plant breeding has paid rich dividend as epitomized by the Green Revolution. The present research work was conducted in Rabi season, 2021-2022 at Wheat and Maize Research Unit, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani. Sonalika, HD2967 and HI8713 were the three checks and 78 genotypes that made up the experimental materials for this investigation. These genotypes were assessed in an augmented block design and confermances were recorded for twelve characters viz. days to 50% anthesis, plant height, days to 50% heading, number of grains per spike, number of tillers per meter, test weight, biological yield, grain yield, days to maturitry, spike length, protein content and chlorophyll content. The data were documented on five randomly selected plants per entry and analyzed for variance, heritability, variability and genetic advance for quantitative characters. The variance was found to be topmost for number of grains per spike and least for grain yield per plot. The coefficient of variability was observed to be highest for days to 50% anthesis and lowest for days to maturity. Heritability in broad sense was upmost for biological yield per plot and undermost for chlorophyll content. Broadly speaking, Genetic advance as a percent of mean was topmost for biological yield per plot and least for chlorophyll content.