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CORRELATION STUDIES ON SEED COTTON YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS IN UPLAND

COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.)

Ashok Patankar and Ganesh Kulkarni

Department of Botany, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad-431004,

Department of Botany J.E.S R.G. Bagadia Arts, S.B. Lakhotia Comm. & R. Bezonji Science college
Jalna 43120

ABSTRACT

As the crop yield is influenced by large number of components, present

investigation was undertaken to determine their importance in productivity of
upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), in order to initiate an effective selection
program. For this purpose, correlation studies were employed wherein seed
cotton yield per plant was taken as dependent character. The boll weight
recorded significant positive association with seed cotton yield per hector
(0.2877 and 0.6231) at phenotypic and genotypic levels respectively. Seed
index showed significant positive correlation with seed cotton yield per hector,
(0.3938 and 0.5973) at phenotypic and genotypic levels respectively. At
phenotypic level, lint index showed significant positive correlation with seed
cotton yield per plant (0.2988), and seed cotton yield per hector (0.2532). This
trait showed significant positive correlation with seed cotton yield per plant
(0.5646) at genotypic level.

Key words: Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L, seed cotton yield, Correlation,

Introduction F505, F846, F1054 and F1378, all belonging to

Cotton is the most important
commercial fibre-crop wherein expression of
various traits often varies with the change in
breeding material and environment.
Therefore, information on character
associations between the traits themselves
and with the yield is important for breeding, to
generate high yielding genotypes. As seed
cotton yield is an important economic
character of cotton, it was considered as
dependent character for correlation studies.
Material and Methods
Present investigation was carried at
farmer's fields located at Aurangabad, Kannad
and Deulgaon Raja, Maharashtra. The plant
materials used in the present study were
developed by crossing 8 cultivars, viz:
AKH081, AKH8828, AKH9916, PKV Rajat,
G. hirsutum. When these parental lines started
to flower, these were crossed in half diallel
fashion to produce 28 hybrids.
Twenty eight single cross hybrids (F1s)
and their eight parents along with two
commercial checks were sown under rain fed
condition during kharif season of 2016 in
randomized block design (RBD) with three
replications. The spacing between the rows, as
well as between the plants within a row was 90
cm. The length of each row was 5.5 m. Similar
agronomic conditions were maintained at all
the three locations. Recommended package of
practices was followed to raise a good crop,
which was raised rainfed condition, while
protective irrigations were given whenever
needed.
Data on five competitive plants
located in middle of the field were recorded for
12 characters viz., Days to 50 % flowering,
plant height (cm), number of monopodia per
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plant, number of sympodia per plant, number
of bolls per plant, boll weight (g), ginning
outturn (%), lint index (g), seed index (g), days
to maturity, seed cotton yield per plant (g) and
seed cotton yield per hectare.
Average values of all characters,
measured in 38 genotypes, in each replication
were analyzed for Analysis of variance
(ANOVA). Standard Error (SE) and Critical
Difference (CD) were calculated following
Panse and Sukhatme (1964). Correlation
coefficients between different characters at
phenotypic and genotypic levels were
calculated as described by Al-Jibouri et al.,
(1958).
Results and Discussion
The values of phenotypic and
genotypic correlation coefficients between
various characters have been presented in
Tables 1and 2.
Seed cotton yield (g) was significantly
and positively associated with number of
sympodia per plant, number of bolls per plant,
boll weight (g), lint index (g), ginning out turn
(%) and seed index (g) at phenotypic level, and
with lint index at genotypic level. The results
are in agreement with those reported by Tuteja
et al. (2006), Leela Pratap et al. (2007) and
Vijayalaxmi et al. (2008).
The values for genotypic correlation
coefficients were higher than phenotypic
correlations, probably due to stability of
genotypes, as majority of them were subjected
to selection (Johnson et al., 1955). Days to
50% flowering showed negative correlation
with seed index at phenotypic and genotypic
levels, which was in accordance with the
research findings of Kumar et al. (2010) and
Venkatesh (2012). Number of monopodia per
plant showed positive association with seed
cotton yield per hector. This trait also showed
positive association with number of sympodia
per plant, number of bolls per plant, boll weight,
ginning out turn, plant height and seed cotton
yield per plant at both phenotypic and
genotypic levels. However, this trait revealed
negative correlation with days to maturity, seed
index at phenotypic level and lint index at both
phenotypic and genotypic levels. These
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results are in agreement with the findings of
Rajanna et al. (2011) and Venkatesh (2012).
Number of sympodia per plant
exhibited positive correlation with number of
bolls per plant at phenotypic and genotypic
levels, and with ginning out turn, plant height,
seed index, seed cotton yield per plant and
seed cotton yield per hector at phenotypic
level. Whereas, with boll weight, ginning out
turn, plant height, days to maturity, seed index,
lint index, seed cotton yield per plant and seed
cotton yield per hacter showed positive
association at genotypic level. Similar trend
was recorded by Rajanna et al. (2011) and
Wang et al. (2012) for number of bolls per plant
and Tulasi et al. (2012) and Venkatesh (2012)
for seed index.
The number of bolls per plant showed
positive correlation with boll weight at
phenotypic and genotypic levels. Whereas it
showed positive association with lint index,
seed cotton yield per plant, and seed cotton
yield per hector at phenotypic level only.
However, this trait revealed positive correlation
at phenotypic level with ginning out turn and
plant height. This trait also showed negative
correlation at phenotypic level with days to
maturity and seed index and positive
association with ginning out turn, lint index and
seed cotton yield per plant at genotypic level.
This trait also showed negative correlation with
plant height, days to maturity and seed index.
These results thus indicated that number of
bolls had positive association with seed cotton
yield per plant at phenotypic level. These
results are in agreement with the findings of
Thiyagu et al. (2010), Venkateswarlu et al.
(2010b) and Venkatesh (2012).
Boll weight recorded positive
association with seed cotton yield per hector at
both phenotypic and genotypic levels, and
positive association with seed index, lint index,
and seed cotton yield per plant at phenotypic
level. However, this trait recorded negative
correlation at phenotypic level with ginning out
turn, plant height, and days to maturity. At
genotypic level, boll weight revealed positive
association with ginning out turn, seed index,
lint index, and seed cotton yield per plant. This
trait had also shown negative correlation with
plant height and days to maturity and positive

correlation with, seed cotton yield per plant and
seed cotton yield per hector. These results are
in agreement with the reports of Kumar and
Ravikesavan (2010), Mohan (2011) and Wang
et al. (2012) for seed cotton yield per plant.
Ginning out-turn recorded positive
correlation with lint index. However, it showed
positive association with seed index, seed
cotton yield per plant and seed cotton yield per
hector at phenotypic level only. This trait also
revealed positive correlation with plant height
and days to maturity at phenotypic level.
Whereas this trait showed positive association
with plant height, days to maturity, seed index,
seed cotton yield per plant, and seed cotton
yield per hector at genotypic level. Thus,
improvement of ginning out-turn may be
possible through lint yield and seed cotton
yield per plant. These results are in agreement
with the reports of Rao (2008), Rajanna et al.
(2011) and Venkatesh (2012) for lint yield per
plant and Haritha (2011), Tulasi et al. (2012)
and Venkatesh (2012) for seed cotton yield per
plant.
Plant height at phenotypic level
recorded positive association with days to
maturity, seed index, and lint index, seed
cotton yield per plant and seed cotton yield per
hector (0.0931). On the other hand, at
genotypic level this trait showed positive
association with days to maturity, seed index
and lint index. This trait registered negative
correlation with seed cotton yield per plant and
seed cotton yield per hector. These results
indicated that this trait had strong association
with days to maturity, seed index and lint index.
Days to maturity at both phenotypic
and genotypic level showed positive
correlation with seed index, and lint index. It
exhibited negative correlation with seed cotton
yield per plant, seed cotton yield per hector at
phenotypic level. Whereas, positive
association with seed cotton yield per plant
and seed cotton yield per hector at genotypic
level.
Seed index showed positive
correlation with seed cotton yield per hector at
both phenotypic and genotypic levels. At
phenotypic level this trait exhibited positive
association with lint index and seed cotton
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yield per plant, while with lint index, seed
cotton yield per plant at genotypic level. The
positive correlation of seed index with lint index
at genotypic level was in conformity with the
findings of Rajanna et al. (2011), Mohan (2011)
and Venkatesh (2012) for lint index.
Lint index at phenotypic level showed
positive correlation with seed cotton yield per
plant and seed cotton yield per hector. This trait
also showed positive correlation with seed
cotton yield per plant and seed cotton yield per
hector at genotypic level. This trait was thus
important for seed cotton yield.
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Table 1. Phenotypic correlation of seed cotton yield and other component characters

Phenotypic correlation coefficients between seed cotton yield and other characters
Days to No. of SCY/
No. of No. Boll GOT Plant Days to Seed Lint SCY/
Character 50% Bolls plant
Monopodia Sympodia WT (g) % Height Maturity Index Index ha(q)
flower Plant (g)
Days to 50% - - - - - -
1.0000 0.0848 -0.1523 0.1876 -0.018 0.0378
flower 0.0697 0.0402 0.0489 0.1754 0.0501 0.1291
No. of - -
1.0000 0.0691 0.104 0.092 0.0433 0.0097 -0.0055 0.0154 0.1301
Monopodia 0.0017 0.0019
No.
1.0000 0.1083 0.0831 0.1788 0.1637 0.0143 0.1626 0.0985 0.2489 0.3422
Sympodia
No. of Bolls -
1.0000 0.2042 0.0712 0.0306 -0.0954 0.3687 0.218 0.1144
Plant 0.0581
- -
Boll WT (g) 1.0000 -0.0979 0.1195 0.3496 0.2241 0.2877
0.0165 0.1046
GOT % 1.0000 0.0642 0.0289 0.1925 0.1357 0.2131 0.2356
Plant Height 1.0000 0.1846 0.2154 0.1230 0.0349 0.0931
Days to - -
1.0000 0.1017 0.0232
Maturity 0.0752 0.0008
Seed Index 1.0000 0.4492 0.3241 0.3938
Lint Index 1.0000 0.2988 0.2532
SCY/ plant
1.0000 0.7978
(g)
SCY/ ha(q) 1.0000
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Table 2. Genotypic correlation of seed cotton yield and other component characters
Genotypic correlation coefficients between seed cotton yield and other characters
Days
No. of SCY/
to No. of No. Boll GOT Plant Days to Seed Lint SCY/
Character Bolls plant
50% Monopodia Sympodia WT (g) % Height Maturity Index Index ha(q)
Plant (g)
flower
Days to 50% - - - - -
1.0000 -0.5136 -0.3308 0.5323 0.0342 -0.4459 0.3086
flower 0.0071 0.1168 0.4267 0.2406 0.5629
No. of -
1.0000 0.2755 0.1281 0.2649 0.1303 0.0305 0.1567 0.0699 0.0574 0.4185
Monopodia 0.0106
No.
1.0000 0.2622 0.5896 0.2857 0.0509 0.0679 0.3978 0.3135 0.7643 0.913
Sympodia
No. of Bolls - -
1.0000 0.6009 0.3052 -0.4364 0.6423 0.4465 0.1491
Plant 0.2791 0.1322
-
Boll WT (g) 1.0000 0.1598 -0.0021 0.1101 0.6096 0.718 0.6231
0.4936
GOT % 1.0000 0.2976 0.3221 0.6434 0.6366 0.4245 0.4303
- -
Plant Height 1.0000 0.6931 0.5581 0.1877
0.2018 0.0383
Days to
1.0000 0.8229 0.2236 0.1052 0.2889
Maturity
Seed Index 1.0000 0.5848 0.4612 0.5973
Lint Index 1.0000 0.5646 0.4123
SCY/ plant
1.0000 0.8517
(g)
SCY/ ha(q) 1.0000
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