| Summary: | Horse gram is a nutrient-rich and photo-sensitive legume crop. The experiments were carried out to study the
association among traits in horse gram. A total of six determinate and photo-insensitive horse gram mutants were raised
in RBD with five replications in two locations in all three seasons (Kharif’22, Rabi’22 and Summer’23), and the mean
data for ten quantitative traits were subjected to correlation and path analyses. The findings of correlation analysis
indicated that the traits number of clusters per plant and number of pods per plant had a positive association
with seed yield per hectare. Similarly, the path analysis revealed that the number of pods per plant and hundred
seed weight exhibited a positive and direct effect on seed yield per hectare. There was a noticeable variation
observed for both macro and micronutrients. From the current experiment, two determinate mutants TNAU-HGDM-004 and TNAU-HG-DM-001 were selected as nutrient-rich genotypes with high yield potential. Hence, these
determinate mutants can be used as donors for yield as well as nutrient improvement programs in horse gram.
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