International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 3
First page : (849) Last page : (853)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2594
Genetic Variability, Heritability and Genetic Advance in Garlic (Allium sativum L.)
Sunil Kumar1*, V. P. Pande1 and Ashok Kumar2
1Department of Vegetable Science, 2Department of Pant Pathology
Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad (U. P.), India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: sunilbuat@gmail.com
Received: 14.02.2017 | Revised: 24.02.2017 | Accepted: 25.02.2017
ABSTRACT
Genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance in twenty five genotypically diverse indigenous genotypes of garlic (Allium sativum L.) was collected deferent part of Uttar Pradesh and trail was conducted at Main Experimental Station of Vegetable Science, Narendra Dev University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumaganj Faizabad (U.P.) during rabi 2007-08 with the objective to study the genetic variability for different characters in available genotype and to work out heritability and genetic advance in per cent of mean. The experiment was conducted in Randomized Block Design with three replications. The single plot sized 2.00 x 0.30m2 with the distance of 15 cm row to row and 10 cm plant to plant. Observations were recorded on plant height(cm), number of leaves per plant, length of leaves (cm), width of leaves (cm), fresh yield per plant (g), length of each bulb (cm), diameter of each bulb (cm), number of cloves per bulb, length of each clove(cm), diameter of each clove (cm), days to harvest, total soluble solids (T.S.S%), dry matter (%), acidity(%).The maximum phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation was observed in fresh yield per plant (g), number of cloves per bulb among vegetative characters and acidity content in quality characters. All the characters showed very high heritability except total soluble solids (T.S.S.) which showed very low heritability width of leaves followed by acidity showed high heritability in broad sense as well as genetic advance in per cent of mean.
Key words: Garlic, genetic variability, heritability, genetic advance and yield.
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Cite this article: Kumar, S., Pande, V.P., and Kumar, A., Genetic Variability, Heritability and Genetic Advance in Garlic (Allium sativum L.), Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(3): 849-853 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2594
