Genetic Variability and Heritability Estimates of Agronomic Traits in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) (original) (raw)
Romanian Agricultural Research
Assessing genetic variability and heritability of the targeted traits is among the crucial first steps toward lentil crop breeding. With the aim of estimating genetic variability and heritability of the crop traits and screening the most promising genotypes, a total of 12 lentil genotypes (11 lines from ICARDA, Syria, and one local cultivar) were evaluated at three locations of the Sulaimani region, northern Iraq during 2018-2019 season. Results showed a significant (P≤0.05) genetic variation among the lentils for most of the agro-morphological traits. In pairwise comparisons, ICARDA lines Flip 93-36L and Flip 2009-70L showed the best performance for most of the evaluated traits and were identified as the most promising for local cultivation and breeding goals. The very significant positive and negative correlations were between seed yield with biomass (r=0.89) and number of days to emergence (r=-0.89). The highest to lowest broad-sense heritability (H2 ) values were recorded for 10...
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