European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience

Authors
Dapke JS, Naik MR, Vaidya GB, Vanve PB, Narwade AV, Rajkumar BK

Abstract
The experimental material comprised of 61 castor genotypes were evaluated for assessment of genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance percent mean in respect of eleven characters. The GCV and PCV were of high magnitude for the character number of effective branches per plant followed by number of capsules on primary raceme and seed yield per plant. The magnitude of PCV was higher than GCV for all the characters, suggesting the role of environmental variance. High genetic variability coupled with high heritability and high genetic advance was recorded for all the studied traits except days to 50 percent flowering, days to maturity of primary spike, 100-seed weight, and oil content indicating that direct selection for these traits could be effective.