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PHENOTYPIC STABILITY OF HERBAGE YIELD AND OTHER HARACTERS IN LUCERNE

Volume : 70
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 141 - 145
Published: September 28, 2023
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Abstract


Eleven genotypes of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) were evaluated with respect to herbage yield and its components for three years. The data, pertaining to 17 cuts were analysed considering individual cuts as environments. Fresence of genotype-environment interaction was revealed for the traits green forage yeield, dry matter yield, plant height and leafiness percentage. Mean performance of varieties could be predicted across the environments. Variety Anand-2 was above average in performance for green forage yield, dry matter yield and plant height, below average in response and stable for these characters. It was highly stable for leafiness but unstable for number of tillers. The recommended variety T-9 was very poor in performance, below average in response and stable for green forage and dry matter yield only.

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141 - 145
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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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