Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits

Fifty-six desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) advance breeding lines were evaluated in order to explore the possibility of genetic divergence for yield and its contributing traits using Mahalanobis’s D2 Statistics and Principal Component Analysis. High estimates of heritability, genetic advance, GCV...

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Main Authors: Anita Babbar, Monica Jyoti Kujur, Prachi Sharma, Balkishan Chaudhary, Monika Patel, Archana Shakya
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Published: Action for Sustainable Efficacious Development and Awareness 2023-08-01
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Online Access:https://journal.environcj.in/index.php/ecj/article/view/2236
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author Anita Babbar
Monica Jyoti Kujur
Prachi Sharma
Balkishan Chaudhary
Monika Patel
Archana Shakya
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Monica Jyoti Kujur
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Balkishan Chaudhary
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description Fifty-six desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) advance breeding lines were evaluated in order to explore the possibility of genetic divergence for yield and its contributing traits using Mahalanobis’s D2 Statistics and Principal Component Analysis. High estimates of heritability, genetic advance, GCV and PCV were recorded for seed yield per plant (92.2%, 12.4%, 37.1% and 38.7%), biological yield per plant (88.1%, 21.9%, 29.1% and 31.0%) and harvest index (87.3%, 25.0%, 22.7% and 24.3%). All the test genotypes were sort into five discrete clusters. Biological yield/plant (23.5%), days to maturity (17.3%), harvest index (14.6%), seed yield/plant (11.3%), total number of pods/plant (7.4%) and 100 seed weight (6.49%) were found to have highest percentage contributions to genetic diversity in the present research. The first six principal components (PC1 19.7%, PC 16.2%, PC3 11.2%, PC4 9.69%, PC5 7.2% and PC6 6.69%) could explain 70.68% of the total of the interaction variation and have Eigen value more than one.  Genotypes JG 2016-1411, JG 2016-9605, JG 2017-46, ICCV 16105, ICCV 16109, ICCV 16112 and ICCV 16116 were present in more than one PCs hence contributed maximum towards yield and can be used in various breeding programmes for yield improvement. 
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spelling doaj.art-86f304a50cae486e98bec67d6436d5f72023-12-20T16:42:57ZengAction for Sustainable Efficacious Development and AwarenessEnvironment Conservation Journal0972-30992278-51242023-08-0124410.36953/ECJ.22362578Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traitsAnita Babbar0Monica Jyoti Kujur1Prachi Sharma 2Balkishan Chaudhary3Monika Patel4Archana Shakya5AICRP on Chickpea, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (MP), IndiaDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (MP), IndiaDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (MP), IndiaDepartment of Plant Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (MP), IndiaDepartment of Plant Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (MP), IndiaDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, (MP), India Fifty-six desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) advance breeding lines were evaluated in order to explore the possibility of genetic divergence for yield and its contributing traits using Mahalanobis’s D2 Statistics and Principal Component Analysis. High estimates of heritability, genetic advance, GCV and PCV were recorded for seed yield per plant (92.2%, 12.4%, 37.1% and 38.7%), biological yield per plant (88.1%, 21.9%, 29.1% and 31.0%) and harvest index (87.3%, 25.0%, 22.7% and 24.3%). All the test genotypes were sort into five discrete clusters. Biological yield/plant (23.5%), days to maturity (17.3%), harvest index (14.6%), seed yield/plant (11.3%), total number of pods/plant (7.4%) and 100 seed weight (6.49%) were found to have highest percentage contributions to genetic diversity in the present research. The first six principal components (PC1 19.7%, PC 16.2%, PC3 11.2%, PC4 9.69%, PC5 7.2% and PC6 6.69%) could explain 70.68% of the total of the interaction variation and have Eigen value more than one.  Genotypes JG 2016-1411, JG 2016-9605, JG 2017-46, ICCV 16105, ICCV 16109, ICCV 16112 and ICCV 16116 were present in more than one PCs hence contributed maximum towards yield and can be used in various breeding programmes for yield improvement.  https://journal.environcj.in/index.php/ecj/article/view/2236Genetic divergenceHeritabilityD2 analysisPCA
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Monica Jyoti Kujur
Prachi Sharma
Balkishan Chaudhary
Monika Patel
Archana Shakya
Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits
Environment Conservation Journal
Genetic divergence
Heritability
D2 analysis
PCA
title Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits
title_full Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits
title_fullStr Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits
title_full_unstemmed Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits
title_short Elucidating genetic diversity and variability in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using yield attribution traits
title_sort elucidating genetic diversity and variability in chickpea cicer arietinum l using yield attribution traits
topic Genetic divergence
Heritability
D2 analysis
PCA
url https://journal.environcj.in/index.php/ecj/article/view/2236
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