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COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR FODDER YIELD IN COWPEA

Volume : 80
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 190 - 193
Published: August 14, 2023
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Abstract


Sixteen strains of cowpea were evaluated for six fodder characters, wide range of variability was observed for plant height, green fodder yield and number of leaves. Heritability and genetic advance as percentageof mean were also high for these traits. Positive and significant genotypic correlation was noted between green fodder yield with plant height, number of leaves, leaf let length and stem girth. Pathco-efficient analysis revealed that number of leaves, leaflet length and stem girth showed high positivic direct effect on greenfodder yield. It is suggested that selection of plants with thick stem and more number of leaves will improve green fodder yield in cowpea.

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190 - 193
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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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