Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis of Tomato Germplasms

Authors

  • Md. Salehur Rahman IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka
  • Shahanaz Parveen Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207
  • Md.Harun -Ur- Rashid Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207
  • Runa Akter IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka
  • Abu Yousuf Hossin IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka
  • Md. Golam Robbani Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/ijasbt.v3i2.12421

Keywords:

Correlation analysis, Path coefficient analysis, Tomato, Germplasms

Abstract

Forty eight genotypes of tomato were evaluated for yield contributing characters to observe their associations and direct and indirect effect on yield. Character association analysis among yield and yield contributing characters revealed that in most of cases the genotypic correlation coefficient was higher than the respective phenotypic correlation coefficients. This indicated that the suppressive effect of the environment modified the phenotypic expression of these characters by reducing phenotypic correlation values. Also, narrow difference between phenotypic and genotypic correlation coefficient was noticed for almost all the pairs of characters studied showing that masking or modifying effects of the environment was little indicating the presence of an inherent association among these characters. Fruit/cluster showed non-significant positive association with yield/plant at genotypic and phenotypic level but individual weight of fruit had significant negative association at phenotypic level with yield/plant. Path coefficient analysis revealed that no. of fruit/cluster had the highest positive direct effects on fruit yield/plant suggesting their importance while imposing selection for correlation of yield in tomato.

Int J Appl Sci Biotechnol, Vol 3(2): 223-226

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijasbt.v3i2.12421

 

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Md.Harun -Ur- Rashid, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Genetics and Plant Breeding

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Published

2015-06-25

How to Cite

Rahman, M. S., Parveen, S., Rashid, M. .-U.-., Akter, R., Hossin, A. Y., & Robbani, M. G. (2015). Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis of Tomato Germplasms. International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology, 3(2), 223–226. https://doi.org/10.3126/ijasbt.v3i2.12421

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Research Articles: Biological Sciences