An experiment was conducted in research fields under the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University in Bangladesh to study Phenotypic and genotypic correlation co-efficient of quantitative characters and character association of aromatic rice. Forty-one aromatic rice germplasm of diverse sources were used to assess the character association and contribution of characters towards grain yield. Path coefficient analyses were carried out for selected genotypes and to find out the direct and indirect effect of component characters on grain yield. Analysis of phenotypic and genotypic correlation co-efficient of quantitative characters and partitioning of genotypic correlation to grain revealed that the correlation coefficients of grain yield per hill with 1000-grain weight and harvest index were positive and highly significant. Spikelet sterility showed highly significant negative correlation with grain yield at genotypic level only. The parameter 1000-grain weight showed the highest positive direct effect on grain yield. Panicle length and spikelet sterility showed negative negligible direct effect. The highest positive indirect effect was observed for 1000-grain weight via plant height and the highest negative indirect effect for 1000-grain weight via number of filled grains per panicle. Data of this study might be useful for quantitative assessment of the variation in yield and yield components, their interrelationship, and direct and indirect effects of different characters on grain yield of aromatic rice.

Author Name: Dilruba Karim

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Keywords: Phenotypic coefficient, genotypic coefficient Correlation, Grain Yield

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