EVALUATION OF CORIANDER (Coriandrum sativum L.) VARIETIES FOR GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY UNDER EASTERN DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA
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2017-06
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University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot. (College of Horticulture, Bengaluru).
Abstract
An investigation was carried out at College of Horticulture, University of
Horticultural Sciences Campus, GKVK, Bangalore, during rabi season of 2016-17 to
evaluate coriander varieties for growth, yield and quality in Eastern Dry Zone of
Karnataka. The experiment was laid out in RCBD with 3 replications and 16 different
varieties. Analysis of Variance revealed the existence of wide range of variation among
the varieties for all the characters studied except number of seeds per umbellet. The
higher magnitude of GCV and PCV have been noticed for the characters viz., plant
spread, dry weight of plant, seed yield per plant, seed yield per hectare, test weight and
harvest index. The high heritability (bs) coupled with high genetic advance as per cent
mean was also observed for plant spread, fresh and dry weights of plant, number of
umbellets per umbel, seed yield per plant and seed yield per hectare.
Correlation studies indicated that, the seed yield per plant had positive
significant correlation with plant height, number of primary branches per plant, dry
weight of plant, number of umbels per plant, number of umbellets per umbel, number of
seeds per umbellet, test weight and harvest index. Path analysis revealed that, number
of primary branches per plant had a highest positive direct effect on seed yield per plant
followed by number of umbellets per umbel.
Some of the desirable varieties identified by this study were CO(CR)-4, ACr-1
and RCr-446 for higher seed yield, CO(CR)-4, CO-3, CO-2 for higher essential oil
content and varieties RCr-728 and RCr-480 for higher linalool content.