Evaluation of Drought Tolerant Safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius L.) Genotypes under Drought Prone Areas of Sub -zone V of Jharkhand

摘要

The experiment was conducted at Zonal Research Station, Chianki (Birsa agricultural University, Ranchi), Palamau during rabi, 2013-14 and 2014-15. The sixteen drought tolerant safflower genotypes viz., JSI-116, PBNS-72, AKS-204, AKS/GM (V-2724), AKS-307, AKS-210, NARI-57, AKS/S-41, AKS-311,AVT-10-1, AVT-10-2, AVT-10-3, AVT-10-4, A VT-10-5, AVT-10-6 andA-1 (NC) were sown in the randomized block design with three replications. The data were recorded and analyzed for ten yield and yield attributing characters viz., grain yield(q/ha), days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, number of primary branches per plant, number of secondary branches per plant, number of effective capitulum per plant, number of seeds per capitulum, 100 seed weight and RWUE(kg/ha/mm) to identify the most suitable genotypes for Western Plateau of Jharkhand. The characters viz., primary branches per plant were found non-significant effect in both the years. It has clearly indicated that there was significant difference in yield among the genotype studied at also it has varied for yield contributing characters during 2014-15 where as Non-significant mean performance was observed for yield during 2013-14. On the basis of Pooled mean of two years i.e. 2013-14 and 2014-15 the genotypes i.e. AKS-204 and AKS/GMU -2724 had given highest yield ofl3.98q/ha and 13.45 a/ha respectively therefore these genotypes may be recommended for its cultivation in the farmers field and they may be used in future breeding programme for developing the promising genotypes for farmers used.