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:
[email protected]
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.