GENETIC VARIABILITY AND ASSOCIATION OF COMPONENT CHARACTERS FOR SEED YIELD IN OLITORIUS JUTE

Abstract

Study indicated that pod length, seeds per pod, seed weight per pod, 100 seed weight and days to 50% flowering were likely to be operated by non-additive gene action in olitorius jute. Correlation study indicated that the seeds of late flowering genotypes have higher volume than the early flowering genotypes. It is also suggested that good pod length is required for more number of seeds per pod as well as high seed weight per pod. From the path-eoefficient analysis it is suggested that a medium flowering genotype with high l00-seed weight, followed by seeds per pod and pod length is most suitable for better seed production in olitorius jute.