YIELD PERFORMANCE OF TEN MUNGBEAN GENOTYPES AT MAGURA

Abstract

With a view to study the performance of summer mungbean genotypes in respect of yield and yield attributes, an experiment was carried out in the experiment Held of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture sub-station at Magura during the period from February 2006 to May 2006. The experimental treatment comprised often genotypes viz. N4J-207, N4.1-210, N2M-402, EiJ-603, EJ-60S, E2M-SII, E.I-913, Binarnoog-S, Binamoog-7 and Barimoog-S. Among the genotypes, last three were widely cultivated varieties and the rest seven were advanced mutants. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with tour replications. The results indicated that the plant height, number of branches plant"], TDM plant"], number of pods plant"], pod length, number of seeds plant"], lOOO-seedweight, seed yield plant"], seed yield m"l and harvest index varied significantly among the genotypes. It was observed that the highest plant height (4S.S3 em) and maximum number of branches (9.75) were produced by the genotype EjJ-603, but maximum number of pods plant"] (2S.40) and number of seeds plant"] (176.00) were produced by the genotype N4J-207. The genotype Barimoog-5 produced the highest pod length (7.S7 em) and lOOO-seed weight (47.00 g). Maximum total dry matter (20.96 g) was produced by the genotype N2M-402. The genotype N4J-207 produced maximum seed yield/plant (6.69 g), seed yield/m2 and the maximum harvest index (47.67%). The mutant N4J-207 may be released after few more trials in farmers' Held for commercial cultivation.