Vol. 8 (3) : May-June 2017 issue
Green Farming Vol. 8 (3) : 753-755 ; May-June, 2017
Characterization and evaluation of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare L.) germplasm
SUMIT DESWAL1*, T.P. MALIK2, S.K. TEHLAN3, PREETI YADAV4 and R.N. SHEOKAND5
Department of Vegetable Science, Chaudary Charan Singh Harayana Agricultural University, Hisar - 125 004 (Haryana)
Designation : 1Ph.D. Scholar *(deswal.sumit07@gmail.com), 2,3Principal Scientist, 4Ph.D. Scholar, 5Asstt. Scientist
Subject : Vegetable Sciences
Paper No. : P-6500
Total Pages : 3
Received : 28 January 2017
Revised accepted : 09 March 2017
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Citation :
SUMIT DESWAL, T.P. MALIK, S.K. TEHLAN, PREETI YADAV and R.N. SHEOKAND. 2017. Characterization and evaluation of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare L.) germplasm. Green Farming Vol. 8 (3) : 753-755 ; May-June, 2017
ABSTRACT
An experiment was conducted with sixty genotypes of fennel for morphological characterization and evaluation of variability present in vegetative characters such as plant height, effective branches per plant at maturity, primary branches per plant, secondary branches per plant, umbels per plant, umbellate per plant, seeds per umbellate, seeds per umbel and seed yield/plant. Variability observed for quantitative traits showed high range variation for plant height, umbels per plant, umbellate per plant, seeds per umbellate, seeds per umbel and seed yield. Seed yield showed significant and positive correlation with umbels per plant, umbellate per plant, seeds per umbellate, seeds per umbel. High genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variance were observed for the morphological characters. Characterization of germplasm based on morphological parameters signifies the extent of variability present in the population and also provides needful information for selection desirable genotypes for varietal development and also genotypes which can be conserved for unique traits.
Key words :
Fennel, Genotypic & phenotypic correlation, Germplasm evaluation, Growth & yield attributes.