National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Dolichos bean has evolved as a short-day photoperiod sensitive indeterminate crop, restricting its production only to short-day environments. Determinate photoperiod insensitive varieties enable round-the year-production of dolichos bean. Determinate varieties being short-duration fit into multiple cropping systems leading to sustainable agricultural production. While majority of farmers are in favor of determinate varieties, a few of them still prefer traditional indeterminate photoperiod sensitive land races varieties, as they opine that indeterminates are more stable in performance than determinates. A large number of deteminates and indeterminate RILs belonging to different maturity groups were compared for their performance stability. The study indicated that by and large determinate and indeterminate RILs are comparable for stability of seed yield plant-1 in early to medium maturity groups. The results of the present study provide adequate evidence to dispel the notion of certain section of farmers regarding better performance stability of indeterminates than determinates and hence support to breed early to medium duration determinate dolichos bean varieties with performance stability comparable to indeterminate varieties.
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