Abstract

The present investigation was executed on 46 genotypes of urdbean and 14 yield-component characters including seed yield per plant were examined to study the kind of association among all the characters and their contribution towards seed yield through correlation coefficient and path coefficient analysis. The analysis revealed significant contrast among all the genotypes for all the 14 characters. The characters, harvest index, biological yield per plant, number of clusters per plant and number of pods per plant exhibited positive and highly significant association with seed yield per plant; while the path coefficient analysis revealed that number of pods per plant advertised high and positive direct effect, and biological yield per plant disclosed high and positive direct as well as indirect effect towards seed yield per plant. Hence, these characters are significant as major components in determining yield in a selection programme aimed at improving genetic potential of urdbean.