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Assessment of Yield Contributing Quantitative Traits in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

Assessment of Yield Contributing Quantitative Traits in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

Samaria Nisar1, Tariq Manzoor Khan1, Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal1, Rahmat Ullah2, Muhammad Asim Bhutta3*, Saghir Ahmad3, Amna Bibi3, Hafeez ur Rehman4, Umar Farooq4 and Muhammad Zubair Ishaq5

1Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan; 2Agricultural Research Station, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan; 3Cotton Research Institute Multan, Punjab, Pakistan; 4Cotton Research Station Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan; 5Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.

 
*Correspondence | Muhammad Asim Bhutta, Cotton Research Institute Multan, Punjab, Pakistan; Email: bhuttabreeder@gmail.com

Figure 1:

Area, production, and yield of cotton during the last five years. (Source: Pakistan Economic Survey 2018-19).

Figure 2:
Mean Performance of yield contributing traits and yield in F2 population and parents.
PH: Plant height, BP: bolls/plant, BW: boll weight (Gram, 100SW: hundred seed weight, GOT: ginning out turn, SCYP: seed cotton yield per plant, FF: fiber fineness, FS: fiber strength and FL: fiber length.
Figure 3:
Correlation between yield and yield contributing traits of parents and F2Population.
PH: Plant height, BP: bolls/plant, BW: boll weight, 100SW: hundred seed weight, GOT: ginning out turn, SCYP: seed cotton yield per plant, FF: fiber fineness, FS: fiber strength and FL: fiber length.
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Sarhad Journal of Agriculture

March

Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Vol.40, Iss. 1, Pages 01-262

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