Abstract
The present study was conducted to analyze character association between seed yield and oil content traits in sunflower for
eight traits at Oilseeds Section, ARI, Tandojam in randomized complete block design having three replications during 2018-
2019. The analysis of variance revealed that all genotypes were highly significant and significant at 0.01 and 0.05 level of
probability for all the studied attributes indicating the presence of lots of genetic variation in the genotypes. In mean
performance, the genotypes D-6, Melabour, Samsun, Vulgar and Turkish articulated the best values to be found as the most
superior genotypes. Positive and highly significant correlations were observed for germination percentage (%), days to 95%
flowering, days to 95% maturity, plant height and head diameter with grains per head (r = 0.5652**, 0.5383**, 0.6891**,
0.7457** and 0.8292**), whereas germination percentage, days to 95% flowering, days to 95% maturity, plant height and
head diameter, grains per head and seed index also expressed similar associations with oil content (r = 0.7511**, 0.6844**,
0.8299**, 0.8842**, 0.9220**, 0.7591** and 0.7838**). It was suggested that positive correlation directed the selection of
these attributes demonstrating significant results would be very fruitful and progressive for desirable genes in future for the
sunflower development.
