Abstract

                                Many traits, more particularly those that are measurable have been reported to be useful by themselves or in association with other characters in effecting selection of promising plants from a bulk population. An assessment of the extent of variability of these traits in plants of a strain or strains in rice crop as well as the strength of association or correlation among them to judge their reliability would aid the rice breeders in making the selection easy, quick and effective in their breeding programmes and in biometric studies. In the present investigation, an attempt has been made in the study of some important characters such as ear length, number of productive tillers, flowering duration, height of plant etc., and their relationship between one another.

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