Evaluation of Selected Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Lines for Yield and Haulm Nutritive Quality Traits

Table 3

Estimates of variance components, heritability, coefficient of variation, and genetic advance of 30 groundnut genotypes.

Trait					GCV; (%)	PCV; (%)	GA	GAM; (%)
Days to flowering	2.48	2.95	1.41	0.84	5.51	6.00	3.39	11.9
Pod number (plant^−1)	73.7	98.4	74.1	0.75	28.0	32.3	18.7	61.0
Pod yield (t ha^−1)	0.57	0.73	0.48	0.78	27.2	30.9	1.63	58.9
Shelling percentage (%)	6.28	9.13	8.55	0.68	3.96	4.78	5.34	8.44
100-seed weight (g)	7.27	12.7	16.3	0.57	7.55	9.98	6.11	17.1
Haulm yield (t ha^−1)	3.10	3.63	1.60	0.85	25.1	27.2	3.75	53.6
Harvest index (%)	18.5	32.6	42.4	0.57	9.85	13.1	9.19	21.0

: genotypic variance, : phenotypic variance, : error variance, : broad sense heritability, GCV: genotypic coefficient of variations, PCV: phenotypic coefficient of variation, GA: genetic advance, and GAM: genetic advance as a percentage of mean.