Genetic Divergence Variability and Character Association Among Seed Yield and its Components in Chekpea Genotypes Cicer arietinumL

Abstract

The chickpea (Cicer arietinumL.), a self-pollinated pulse crop that is botanically a newlinemember of the Fabaceae family, is one of the most significant rabi pulse crops in newlineIndia and makes up about 20% of all pulse production worldwide. During the rabi newlineseasons of 2019 2020 and 2022 23, the experiment was carried out at the Institute newlineFarm, S.R.K University, Bhopal (M.P.). The findings showed that biological newlineyield/plant had a direct and favorable impact on grain yield/plant and that it also had newlinean indirect impact via 100-seed weight, followed by pods/plant. The trait harvest newlineindex significantly affected the number of pods per plant, which in turn affected grain newlineyield per plant. newlineKeywords: Genetic analysis, path coefficient analysis, chickpea. newline