Studies on character association and path analysis of yield with important yield contributing traits in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.)

The present experiment was conducted with one hundred twenty fenugreek genotypes for ten characters was laid out in Augmented Block Design at Main Experimental Station of Vegetable Science, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology Kumarganj, Faizabad (U.P.) during November 2013 to April 2014. The characters studied were days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height (cm), branches per plant, pods per plant, length of pod (cm), seeds per pod, 1000 seed weight (g), seed yield per plant (g) and seed yield (q/ha).The study revealed genetic variation for all studied traits in fenugreek. Analyses of variance for the design of experiment of fenugreek showed that replication were highly significant for all the characters. The P.C.V. was higher in magnitude than G.C.V. The maximum genotypic and phenotypic variances were observed for branches per plant and pods per plant. Heritability estimates were high for length of pod (cm), seed yield (q/ha), seed yield per plant (g) and seeds per pod. Branches per plant and pods per plant showed very high genetic advance in per cent of mean. In present study, pods per plant showed positive and highly significant correlation association with seed yield (q/ha). Path coefficient analysis carried out at genotypic as well as phenotypic level revealed pods per plant, seeds per pod and 1000 seed weight had positive direct effect on seed yield per plant, this indicates that selection for these traits will be useful.