Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2019)
Evaluation of greater yam (Dioscorea alata L.) genotypes for growth, yield and quality characters under South Gujarat conditions
Author(s): G Koteswara Rao, NB Patel, KD Desai, AI Patel, TR Ahlawat and Chintan Kapadia
Abstract: Field experiment was conducted during 2017-18 and 2018-19 at AICRP on tuber crops project, RHRS farm, ACHF, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari to determine and evaluate the growth, yield and quality performance of greater yam genotypes under South Gujarat condition. Treatments comprised of 27 different genotypes and the experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with three replications. The evaluation performance of different genotypes was assessed by analyzing data on vegetative growth, yield and quality. Results demonstrated that there is significant difference on performance of different greater yam genotypes. Based on the mean performance, the genotypes Sree Roopa and NGy-3 found to be elite for days to first sprouting whereas NGy-8 for the length of leaf, IGDa-3 for width of leaf and length of petiole, NGy-7 for vine diameter, NGy-12 for internode length, IGDa-4 for number of branches/vine and dry matter content of tubers, Da-11 for number of tubers/vine, length of tuber and starch, NGy-15 for weight of tuber, NGy-1 for width of tuber, NGy-17 for yield per vine and yield t/ha, NGy-16 for total sugars and NGy-14 for moisture content were found to be elite over the check Sree Karthika among all the 27 genotypes.
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G Koteswara Rao, NB Patel, KD Desai, AI Patel, TR Ahlawat, Chintan Kapadia. Evaluation of greater yam (Dioscorea alata L.) genotypes for growth, yield and quality characters under South Gujarat conditions. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(4):1977-1982.
