K., UMESHAG. S., ANILKUMARB. N., MARUTHI PRASADM., SHIVAPRIYAJ., JAYAPPAG. K., HALESH2022-01-042022-01-042017-06UHS15PGM667https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810180336An 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.EnglishThesis