Horticultural Evaluation of Garden Pea Germplasm under Humid Sub-temperate Environment of Northwestern Himalaya

Identification of new promising genotypes is essential for boosting the production and productivity of a crop. Involving seventy-five progenies or test cultures with five checks in augmented block design by replicating checks after 15 test cultures carried out the present investigation. The observations were recorded on ten horticultural traits viz., days to first flowering, days to first picking, pod length (cm), seeds/pod, shelling percentage, total soluble solids (%), plant height (cm), branches/plant, pods/plant and pod yield/plant (g). Significant differences between the checks and the test culture genotypes were observed for all the traits studied except for days to first flowering, shelling percentage and TSS. Amongst the test cultures, PMR IO and JP Plufela were found to be the high yielding. Similarly, 11 2432, VP 8005, 11 2436 and Arkel were observed as early maturing genotypes with good pod length, total soluble solids, shelling percentage and fairly high yield.