Author(s):

Atul Kumar Pachauri, AK Sarawgi, S Bhandarkar and SK Nair

Abstract: The present study was carried out to characterize six hundred rice germplasm accessions on the basis of thirty nine morphological and twelve agronomical traits. Most of the morphological characters showed variation in different accessions except leaf: collar leaf: ligule and leaf: shape of ligule. A significant amount of variation was displayed for most of the agronomical traits examined. After evaluation of 600 accessions for eight quantitative characters, on the basis of mean values, top ten accessions were identified for the yield ancillary traits. These can be used to identify phenotypically divergent sources for traits of interest in breeding programmes.

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