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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