Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 18, No 1 (2005)

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Evaluation of Vegetable Soybean Genotypes for Yield and Component Traits

G.T. Basavaraja, G.K. Naidu, P.M. Salimath

Abstract


Vegetable soybean are rich in protien, fat, phosphrous, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin E and isoflavones and are harvested at physiological maturity. At present, in India, soybean is mainly cultivated as an oilseed crop. But cosidering the nutritional importance, efforts are being made to breed vegetable soybean. As an initial step, present study was carried out to know variability, heritability and association among various traits in a set of vegetable genotypes. Significannt heritable variation was observed for yield and its component traits. Seed yield varied from 4983 kg/ha to 2033 kg/ha. Among the vegetable genotypes studied. Himso 1563, a released vegetable soybean variety produced highest seed yield with higher pod length, pod width, bolder seeds, dwarf sature and early attainment of physioogical maturity. Seed yield had positive correlation with pod length, hundred seed weight, harvest index and daily production rate. Present study stresses the need to study nutritional quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses in the vegetable soybean genotypes.

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