Vol. 9, Special Issue 1, Part D (2025)

Current research was conducted during rabi 2022-23. In order to study genetic parameter and association among yield and its contributing traits in safflower. Analysis of variance indicates that all characters viz., days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, no. of primary branches per plant, number of capitulum per plant, 100 seed weight, seed yield per plant, volume weight and oil content. This indicates scope of improvement in genotypes through selection with significant variability. The largest level of genotypic and phenotypic variability were reported for traits like number of primary branches per plant, plant height and 100 seed weight. For variables like number of primary branches per plant, 100 seed weight, biological yield, seed yield per plant, and harvest index, high heritability with high genetic advance as % of mean estimate has been estimated. Association studies indicates that the seed yield per plant is significantly positive corelated with days to 50% flowering (0.364*), number of primary branches per plant (0.241*), number of capitulum per plant (0.340*), biological yield per plant (0.778*), harvest index (0.300*), volume weight (0.335*), while shows negative correlation with oil content (-0.238*). Oil content exhibited significant positive correlation with number of primary branches per plant (0.237*).