Morphological Characterization and Assessment of Genetic Variability, Character Association, and Divergence in Soybean Mutants

Table 4

Estimation of genetic parameters of nine different phenological and morphological characters, yield attributes, and seed yield among 31 soybean genotypes.

Characters	Genotypic variance	Phenotypic variance	Grand mean	Heritability (%)	GCV (%)	PCV (%)	GA (%)
Days to flowering	23.27	28.51	63.84	81.62	7.56	8.36	14.06
Days to maturity	61.11	78.95	123.15	77.40	6.35	7.22	11.50
Plant height (cm)	139.33	159.42	65.91	87.74	17.91	19.16	36.63
Branches per plant (number)	1.564	1.851	3.57	84.50	35.03	38.11	66.33
Pods per plant (number)	63.73	76.43	48.13	83.38	16.59	18.16	31.20
Seeds per pod (number)	0.047	0.058	1.96	81.03	11.06	12.29	20.51
100-seed weight (g)	3.83	4.08	11.91	93.73	16.43	16.97	32.76
Seed yield per plant (g)	1.252	1.578	9.50	79.34	11.78	13.51	22.08
Seed yield (kg per ha)	165018	205237	3221	80.40	12.61	14.06	23.29