• Muhammad Ashfaq

• Abdul Rashid

• Muhammad Saleem Haider

• Amna Ali

• Muhammad Shahzad

• Muhammad Ali

• Farah Khan

• Hafiz Umar Farooq

• Urooj Mubashar

Abstract

Twenty chickpea varieties were assessed for days to flowering, days to maturity, plant height, primary branches, secondary branches, and pods per plant, 100-seed weight and grain yield per plant. Different traits were studied on genetic parameters and their correlations. Analysis of variance showed significant differences among the genotypes for all the characters. Broad sense heritability estimates for various traits ranged from 23.2-89.3 %. Grain yield per plant showed highly significant positive correlation with secondary branches and plant dry weight (r = 0.416**, r = 0.247**) and highly significant negative correlation with number of primary branches and 100-seed weight (r= - 0.890**, r = - 0.315**). The study provides the information regarding genetic variability among the genotypes which may be helpful for further investigation and their utilization for the production of new high yielding varieties through breeding strategies.

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