POSSIBILITIES OF COMBINING HIGH PROTEIN CONTENT WITH HIGH GRAIN YIELD IN FINGER MILLET

Abstract

The F2 and F3 populations of two finger millet crosses viz., WR 13 x GE 1409 and WR 13 x GE 1546 were grown during Kharif season of 1993 and 1994, respectively, along with parents at the experimental farm, GKVK, Bangalore. F3 population was grown in two replications in Randomised Complete Block Design adopting a spacing of 22.5 cm between and 10.0 cm within row. Two hundred fifty F2 plants from each cross selected at random and random five plants from each of the 100 F3 families were studied for protein content, grain yield and yield components. For estimation of proteins, standard analytical procedures were followed [1]. Phenotypic correlations and path coefficients were estimated following the procedure of AL-Jibouri et al. [2].