PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY OF RICE GERMPLASM FOR YIELD TRAITS UNDERAEROBIC CULTIVATION
- Author Information : A. MALIHA, M. BALRAM, CH. V. DURGA RANI, Y. CHANDRA MOHAN and T. RAMESH
- Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
- 2020-10-02
Abstract:
Rice is central in the food consumption of more than half of global population and also holds a very major share in waterused for agriculture. The rapid depletion of water resources is making it a difficult task for the farmers to cultivate rice under floodedcondition thus emphasizing the need to shift to aerobic cultivation. As the genetic basis of material suitable for aerobic cultivationis narrow, the present study aims at understanding the performance of germplasm collected from various parts of country underaerobic cultivation. In the present study, one hundred and ten germplasm lines collected from Cuttack, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh,Telangana and Karnataka were evaluated for two seasons. Data was collected on ten yield attributing traits viz., seedling vigourindex, days to 50% flowering, plant height, panicle length, total tillers per plant, productive tillers per plant, filled grains per panicle,thousand grain weight, percentage spikelet fertility and grain yield per plant. The results revealed that a significant number of lineshad values with desirable range for each trait. Correlation analysis revealed a significant positive correlation between the traitssuch as productive tillers and thousand grain weight (0.74), plant height with panicle length (0.73) and seedling vigour index (0.56)and panicle length and filled grains per panicle (0.55). The diversity analysis resulted in two major clusters (I and II) with 63 and47 lines respectively, which further branched into two sub-clusters each (Ia, Ib and IIa, IIb). The cluster I predominantly had linesfrom Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka and four national checks for water stress tolerance, while cluster II wasdominated by germplasm collected from Cuttack. The present study thus formed a basis to understand the performance of ricegermplasm under aerobic cultivation. Lines with desirable agronomic traits can be chosen from both the clusters and exploited infuture research towards aerobic rice breeding.
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