Studies on genetic variability, heritability, genetic advance and correlation analysis in Fieldpea (Pisum sativum L.)

The present experiment was conducted at Field Experimentation Center, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, The experiment was carried out with 18 genotypes procured from Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, U.P, and India and grown in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications. Observations were recorded on five randomly selected plants for all eight traits from each replication except for days to 50 percent flowering and days to maturity, where the observations were on plot basis. Plant height, number of pods per plant recorded high heritability with high genetic advance as per cent of mean. Plant height showed positive and significant association on with seed yield per plant while seeds per pod negatively significant with seed yield so during selection the priority should be given for plant height, number of pods per plant.