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GENETIC VARIABILITY AND CHARACTER ASSOCIATION STUDIES IN SEMI-DRY RICE

Volume : 83
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 185 - 188
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


Forty drought tolerant rice genotypes were used to study genetic variability, character association and path analysis between yield and its contributing traits under semi-dry cultivation in two environments. Irrespective of the environment, high phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation coupled with high heritability and high genetic advance in spikelet sterility and leaf area index indicated the predominance of additive gene effects in controlling them. Difference in GCV estimates over the environments was found to be a good tool to find out favourable environment to exploit genotypic variation and to exercise selection for improvement of traits. Productive tiller number, harvest index and drymatter production had positive and significant correlation with yield in both environments. Harvest index and drymatter production showed positive and direct effect on yield, and a negative indirect effect on each other with yield.

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185 - 188
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Genetic Variability Semi-dry rice
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