Author(s):

Kamaluddin, Ram Kishor, Vijay Sharma, Hitesh Kumar Saini and Gaurav Shukla

Abstract: An experiment was conducted at P.G. Research Block of College of Agriculture, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda during rabi 2019-2020 to evaluate lentil germplasm lines for variability, heritability, genetic advance and genetic advance as per cent of mean for yield and yield related traits. The experimenting materials were consist of 84 genotypes/varieties including check. The material was sown in Augmented Design II. Row length was 5m long, row to row distance was 30 cm and plant to plant spacing was 10 cm. Statistical analysis was done using statistical package XLSTAT, R 4.0 and online software developed by IASRI. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that significant differences were found among lentil genotypes for all 11 characters except plant height, number of seed per pod and harvest index. Genotype KLB- 115 was desirable for early flowering, LEE-18-172 for early maturity and KLB-1453 for dwarf plant type. The genotype IPLS-09-03 was found desirable for seed yield per plant. High PCV and GCV values were recorded for biological yield per plant and number of pod per plant. High genetic advance as percent of mean was noted for biological yield per plant, number of pod per plant, secondary branches per plant and primary branches per plant. High heritability along with high genetic advance as per cent of mean was observed for primary branches per plant, secondary branch per plant, number of pod per plant and biological yield per plant indicated that additive gene action is predominantly responsible for expression of these traits. Hence, direct selection for these traits may be effective for improvement of yield in lentil.

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