Presence of high level of genetic diversity makes selection an efficient method of improvement in genus Capsicum. Thorough understanding of character association is a pre-selection necessity, which facilitates the improvement of the character of interest, very often yield, by selection for any character with significant positive correlation. Correlation between any two characters is a sum of direct as well as indirect effect of one character on another through other characters under consideration andpath coefficient analysis helps to split correlation into these direct and indirect effects. For this reason, the present study was conducted to elucidate the nature and quantum of association among quantitative characters and their direct as well as indirect effects on dry fruit yield.
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