Vol. 8, Issue 1 (2020)
Morphological traits and growth studies of some promising chickpea [Cicer arietinum (L.)] genotypes
Author(s): Trisha Sinha, Subhasis Mondal, Rajib Nath and Suryakant Hembram
Abstract: The morphological traits and growth studies of crop varieties are important feature that may help to better understand their inherent capacity or energy to stand as well as to know their pattern of growth. With this target, a field experiment was conducted in order to study the morphological traits and growth patterns of nine promising chickpea genotypes namely, AGBL-184, IPC-2010-94, IPC-2011-70, ICCV-13107, RSG-888, 24001-4-1, 24004-3-1, 24034-4-1 and 24017-1-1. Following randomized complete block design with four replications, the observations on several growth parameters were taken at fortnight intervals, starting from 15 DAS to 60 DAS. The parameters taken were plant height, leaf number, leaf area, leaf dry weight, shoot dry weight and total plant dry weight. The pattern of growth based on the morphological traits of the genotypes was different in respect of their pattern of stem elongation, leaf area expansion, dry matter accumulation in leaf, shoot as well as whole plant. However, some common points were also noticed. The result revealed that, major proportion of stem elongation occurred within 30 DAS, whereas, leaf expansion in early growth stage was nominal but made a huge jump around flowering stage for all the genotypes. A huge enhancement in dry matter production in leaf, shoot and total plant was observed at post flowering stage. Correlation analysis showed that the parameters leaf area, leaf dry weight, shoot dry weight as well as total plant dry weight were found to be strongly associated with the seed yield. The highest yielder was genotype AGBL-184 that also maintained highest leaf and total plant dry weight irrespective of the growth stages. In terms of leaf area and shoot dry weight also, AGBL-184 was among the top-ranking genotypes.
DOI: 10.22271/chemi.2020.v8.i1y.8508
Pages: 1712-1717 | 441 Views 74 Downloads
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Trisha Sinha, Subhasis Mondal, Rajib Nath, Suryakant Hembram. Morphological traits and growth studies of some promising chickpea [Cicer arietinum (L.)] genotypes. Int J Chem Stud 2020;8(1):1712-1717. DOI: 10.22271/chemi.2020.v8.i1y.8508
