Evaluation of Groundnut Advanced Lines on the Basis of Morphometric Characters

Abstract

An experiment titled “Evaluation of groundnut advanced lines on the basis of morphometric characters” was conducted at National Agricultural Research Center (NARC), Islamabad to evaluate the different traits of groundnut genotypes during the kharif season of 2021. Twelve different genotypes of groundnut were assessed in this trial. The experiment was conducted according to Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. All plot contained of three rows each having a length of four meters and row to row distance of 45 cm. Similarly, within each row, a plant to plant distance of 15 cm was maintained. Altogether the agronomic applies were kept constant throughout the experiment. Data were recorded on ten different parameters that included plant height (cm), stem diameter (mm), leaf length (cm) and leaf width (cm). The experimental results revealed that the maximum plant height was 53.267 cm recorded in genotype PG-1302 while the lowest plant height was 32.033 cm that was observed for genotype PG-1294. The maximum stem diameter was 4.7333 cm that was observed for PG-1302, while the minimum was 3.6333 cm in case of genotype PG-1294. Maximum leaf length was recorded for PG-1302 which was 6.2333 cm while the lowest one was 4.8000 cm found in BARI-2011 genotype. The maximum leaf width was 2.4667 cm exhibited by PG-1302, while the minimum value was 2.0000 cm in genotype PG-1296. Among all the lines of groundnut PG-1302 is best in term of biomass and in term of yield PG-1267 is performed best. So the recommendation is for high yield production is the variety PG-1267 is best