Characterization of Drought Tolerant Grain Amaranth(Amaranthus hypocondriacus L.) Germplasm for Alfisol of Jharkhand

Abstract

Grain amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.) is a winter crop in India. Productivity improvement through exploitation of variability in 99 accessions was carried out at Birsa Agricultural University, Jharkhand (23o17' N latitude and 85o19' E longitude, 625m altitude) in augmented incomplete block design with three checks (BGA 2, GA 2 and Suvarna) during Rabi 2012-2013 and 2013-14. The data on 11 quantitative and 9 qualitative characters were recorded. A wide range of variability was observed for all the morphological characters. High variability was observed with respect to seed yield (kg/ha), g/10ml seed weight, days to 80% maturity, inflorescence length (cm), plant height (cm), number of branches/plant, days to 50% flowering, petiole length (cm), leaf width (cm), leaf length (cm) and seed yield/plant. The accession viz.,IC94661, SKGPA-106, IC35713 and IC35735 for more than 28 g seed yield/plant; SKGPA-79, SKGPA- 101, SKGPA-69, IC-35665, IC-35642 and SKGPA-100 for days to maturity and IC-35642, IC-21803-A, IC-120670 and IC-95244 for g/10ml seed weight with superior desirable traits can be utilized in different breeding programmes.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.001113

Pages

256 - 259

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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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