Study of Genetic Divergence and Fresh Seed Dormancy in Bunch Groundnut: Genetic variability, Heritability, Expected genetic advance, Correlation coefficients, Path coefficient analysis

The present investigation “Genetic Divergence and Fresh Seed Dormancy in Bunch Type Groundnut Genotypes (Arachis hypogaea L.)” was undertaken to understand phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation, heritability, genetic advance, correlation coefficient, path coefficient analysis, genetic divergence analysis and find out fresh seed dormancy among the genotypes. Experiment was conducted with 3 replication during the season 2018-19 at Research Farm,Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, RVSKVV, College of Agriculture, Gwalior (M.P.). The Observations will be recorded on 5 randomly selected plants of each genotype in each replication for plant height (cm), days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, number of primary branches per plant, number of secondary branches per plant, number of pod per plant, pod yield per plant (gm), 100 pod weight (gm), kernel yield per plant (gm), 100 kernel weight (gm), shelling percentage (%), sound mature kernel (%), pod yield per hectare (kg) and kernel yield per hectare (kg). The analysis of variance revealed genotypes were significantly differed for all the characters, thereby, indicating variability for all the characters.