Character association in banana cv. Nendran (Musa aab group)

摘要

Estimates of phenotypic correlation revealed that bunch yield in Nendran banana is strongly associated with length of bunch, number of hands, number of fingers, length, girth and weight of fingers, leaf area duration (LAD), height of plant and girthof pseudostem at bunch emergence. Path coefficients showed that weight of finger, number of hands and length of bunch along with height of plant are the major characters that contributed to final bunch yield. Though indirect, girth of finger, leaf area,LAD and grith of psendostem at bunch emergence also had significant effect on final bunch yield.