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  • Research Article   
  • Adv Crop Sci Tech 2016, Vol 4(4): 234
  • DOI: 10.4172/2329-8863.1000234

Trait Associations in Some Durum Wheat (Triticum durum L.) Accessions among Yield and Yield related Traits at Kulumsa, South Eastern Ethiopia

Tesfaye Wolde1, Firdisa Eticha2, Sentayehu Alamerew1, Ermias Assefa1,3*, Dargicho Dutamo4 and Birhanu Mecha5
1College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Gelalcha, Jimma University, Ethiopia
2Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Kulumsa Research Center, Ethiopia
3Southern Agricultural Research Institute, Ethiopia
4College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mizan-Tepi University, Ethiopia
5College of Agricultural Sciences, Wachemo University, Ethiopia
*Corresponding Author : Ermias Assefa, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Jimma University, Ethiopia, Tel: +251919120375, Email: ethioerm99@gmail.com

Received Date: Jul 09, 2016 / Accepted Date: Jul 30, 2016 / Published Date: Aug 01, 2016

Abstract

Wheat (Triticum durum L.) is the leading source of cereal and vegetable protein in human food, having higher protein content than either maize (corn) or rice, the other major cereals. The objective was to study the association among grain yield and related traits and identify traits those have the most direct and indirect effects on grain yield. Sixty eight durum wheat accessions tested in an augmented block design. Twelve yield and related traits were recorded in the investigation. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among accessions for all traits. Grain yield showed positive and significant correlation with grain filling period, productive tillers per plant, number of grains per spike, spikelets per spike, 1000 grain weight, biological yield and harvest index at both phenotypic and genotypic levels. This implies that through improving these traits possible to improve grain yield. Path coefficient analysis showed that harvest index and biological yield revealed high positive direct effect and positively high significant correlations with grain yield. Indicated these two characters can be considered for direct selection. However the present outcome is only an indication and we cannot reach a definite conclusion. Therefore, it is sensible to conduct a follow up study by incorporating more characters over different years and locations.

Keywords: Durum wheat accessions; Yield related traits; Ethiopia

Citation: Wolde T, Eticha F, Alamerew S, Assefa E, Dutamo D, et al. (2016) Trait Associations in Some Durum Wheat (Triticum durum L.) Accessions among Yield and Yield related Traits at Kulumsa, South Eastern Ethiopia. Adv Crop Sci Tech 4:234. Doi: 10.4172/2329-8863.1000234

Copyright: © 2016 Wolde T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Review summary

  1. Ayalew Kebed
    Posted on Aug 23 2016 at 4:46 pm
    I am very impressed with the article ideas. Also,the way of presenting the results with table and graphs is very interesting. How can i drow the grapes like the article, graphical presentation of grain yield with different traits.
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