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Path Coefficient Analysis of Grain Yield in Pearl Millet (Pennisetum americanum (L) Leeke)

Volume : 67
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 214 - 219
Published: October 01, 2023
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Abstract


Nine parents and their 36 F1 hybrids were taken to study correlations among the yield and its components. Path analysis was also done to estimate the direct and indirect effects of these variables on yield, Plant height and number of internodes/main shoot were found to have positive and significant association with ear length, ear girth and hundred weight and negative association with Productive tillers/plant. Ear length was positively associated with hundred-grain weight. A negative association of grain yield with most of the characters except tillers/plant and productive tillers/plant was noted, Productive tillers showed maximum direct effect on grain yield thereby suggesting its importance as a character to be consider- od for selecting high yielding lines.

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214 - 219
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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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