Productiveness of Various Quantitative Traits of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) Genotypes under Tando Jam Climatic Conditions

Chickpea, pulse crop which is important and cultivated on about 18 Million hectares worldwide. It also has a critical diet component for large populations of semiarid tropical climates and is one of the most beneficial crops for the farming system’s sustainable productivity. Chickpea originates from a fairly narrow center of origin, Mediterranean Middle East Anatolia, although they enjoy large variations from their wild ancestors. The current research was conducted at Rice Research Center, Dokri in 2019 to evaluate the chickpea genotype's performance regarding yield, and its related traits using RCBD (randomized complete block design) within three replications. Heritability and correlation were studied in this experiment to evaluate the genotypic yield performance. Seed index and seed plot-1 exhibited significant results with p<0.01 and p< 0.05 probability level, while yield kg ha-1 revealed non-significant. DG-89 exhibited maximum seed index, seed plot-1, and seed yield kg ha-1 (25.00), (760.00), and (10556). Correlation, between yield kg ha-1 and yield character, revealed a significant relationship with each other respectively. Heritability estimates observed high heritability (h2-99.82). Hence, it is concluded that genotype DG-89 performed the best among other genotypes for yield and its related characteristics.