Abstract

An experiment was conducted in the Organic Farm of the Department of Organic Agriculture, CSK HPKV, Palampur during the year 2010–11 on 26 genotypes of wheat grown under two environments i. e. organic input conditions and non-organic input conditions to find out the most important traits for selection under organic input condition. Grain filling period, grain weight/spike, grains/spike, plant height, biological yield and harvest index showed high heritability and high genetic advance under organic input conditions. Significant positive correlations of seed yield with tillers/plant, grains/spike, biological yield and harvest index were observed under organic conditions. Traits like spikes/plant and 1000-grain weight which showed positive association with yield under non-organic input conditions were found to be non-significant under organic conditions.