GENETIC VARIABILITY, CHARACTER ASSOCIATION AND PATH COEFFICIENT ANALYSIS IN CHICKPEA (CICER ARIETINUM L.)Dan Singh Jakhar, M.S. Kamble , Abhishek Singh1 and Prudhvi RajAbstract Studies on genetic variability, character association and path-coefficient analysis were conducted on 40 chickpea genotypes. Analysis of variance revealed considerable variability among the genotypes for all the characters. A high genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation was observed for seed yield/plant followed by number of pods/plant, 100 seed weight and number of secondary branches/plant. The highest heritability (b.s.) was observed for 100 seed weight (99.20%) followed by seed yield/plant (95.00%), number of pods/plant (94.7%), days to 50 per cent flowering (87.30%) and number of secondary branches (83.3%). Seed yield/plant was exhibited highest genetic advance as per cent of mean (78.68) followed by number of pods/plant (51.99) and 100 seed weight (50.96). The seed yield/plant showed highly significant and positive correlation with number of pods/plant, 100 seed weight, height of the plant and number of secondary branches. Path coefficient analysis revealed that number of pods/plant had highest direct effect on seed yield/plant followed by number of primary branches, 100 seed weight and height of the plant.
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