Correlation studies in M5 generation of safflower [Carthamus tinctorius (L.)]

The current research was performed at the experimental farm of All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Safflower, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani. (M.S.) during Rabi, 2023-24. In M5 generation, forty selected progenies from M4 generation along with four standard checks, namely PBNS-12, PBNS-86, ISF-1, and Sharda were assessed in randomised block design. Correlation studies revealed that, the seed yield per plant was significantly and positively correlated with days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, number of primary branches per plant, number of capitula per plant and oil content at both genotypic and phenotypic level whereas negatively and non-significantly with volume weight at both genotypic and phenotypic level.