International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 2
First page : (779) Last page : (786)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2657
Diversity Assessment of Jeera Accessions (Nigella Sativa L.), from Afghanistan and India, using Morphological and Yield Traits during Late Rabi 2014 and Early Rabi 2015
Sayed Esmail Emran1*, Rashad Ahmad Sherzad2, Sayed Ali Yaqoobi3, Sayed Ali Askar Musavi4
1Department of Plantation, Spices, Medicinal, and Aromatic Crops, College of Horticulture, UHS Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2Department of postharvest technology, College of Horticulture, UHS Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
3Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran
4Department of Animal and Marine Bioresource Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
*Corresponding Author E-mail: emran50000@gmail.com
Received: 6.03.2017 | Revised: 16.03.2017 | Accepted: 17.03.2017
ABSTRACT
Black cumin (N. sativa L.) is one such crop of great medicinal value, but less studied for the extent of variability in the available genetic resources and, for the influence of location and season on crop growth performance.The present study was undertaken to assess 37 accessions collected from Afghanistan and India. The accessions were sown during late Rabi 2014 and early Rabi 2015 and evaluated for 11 traits including yield and seed oil content. Black cumin accessions showed significant differences for all the characters including total yield and oil percentage during 2014. During 2015 the accessions did differ significantly for most characters except plant height, number of locules per capsule and seeds per capsule. Morphometric based PCA analysis revealed that there were broad-scale geographic genetic differentiation of the populations of N sativa and gene pools seem to be mixing well at a small geographic scale either because of human mediated commercial exploitation or because of natural outcrossing.
Key words: Nigella sativa, Afghanistan, India, Diversity, PCA
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Cite this article: Emran, S.E., Sherzad, R.A., Yaqoobi, S.A. and Musavi, S.A.A., Diversity Assessment of Jeera Accessions (Nigella Sativa L.), from Afghanistan and India, using Morphological and Yield Traits during Late Rabi 2014 and Early Rabi 2015, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(2): 779-786 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2657
