Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2021)

Path coefficient analysis of different yield traits under stress condition revealed that harvest index, biological yield, number of seeds per plant, days to 50% flowering recorded positive direct effect on seed yield per plant. These traits have also shown positive indirect effect via each other which indicated that simultaneous improvement of these traits and ultimately the yield can be achieved.

Whereas, path coefficient analysis of different yield traits under normal condition revealed that harvest index have shown high positive direct effect on seed yield per plant number of pod clusters per plant, days to flower initiation, biological yield per plant, number of seeds per plant, number of secondary branches per plant and 100seed weight showed positive direct effect on seed yield perplant. Days to flower initiation, number of pods clusters per plant, number of seeds per plant, biological yield and harvest index have also shown indirect effect via each other.