Evaluation of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Genetic Diversity Germplasm in Prayagraj Agro-climatic Conditions Using Metroglyph Analysis

Total 25 genotypes of chick pea were investigated during current study. The experiment was conducted during Rabi-2022 in RBD having three replications and the data were recorded on 12 characters to study the variability, heritability, genetic advance, metroglyph analysis. Analysis of variance revealed that there was considerable genetic variability in the available germplasm for most of the characters studied for 12 different quantitative characters and analysed on the basis of heredity, Genetic advance and metroglyph analysis. Performance of grain yield and its components depicted that UDAY was found best followed by NBEG-3 and NBEG-47. A close perusal of variability coefficients revealed that the difference between PCV and GCV was small indicating little influence of environment on the expression of characters studied. High estimates of PCV and GCV were recorded for Harvesting index. The highest heritability was observed for Harvesting index (92.17 %), followed by Seed yield (91.76%) and Number of pods per plant (85.61%). In the present study a perusal of genetic advance showed that it was high for Harvesting index (14.10). We have noticed that among selected 25 genotypes, UDAY, NBEG-3, NBEG-47, ICC-313, FLIP-09-162, RVG-202, IPC-11-85 were observed as higher yielder and identified for higher index score.