ASSESSMENT OF GENETIC VARIABILITY AND CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS ANALYSIS IN GROUNDNUT (ARACHIS HYPOGAEA L.) FOR YIELD AND QUALITY TRAITSSmruti Kodela, Priyanka Gupta, Devarakonda Uday Kiran Kumar and Soni SinghAbstract The experiment was conducted on 30 groundnut genotypes for 15 characters during Kharif 2022-23 and evaluated for genetic variability parameters and correlation coefficient. Analysis of variance revealed significantly notable genetic differences for all the features that were evaluated. In the current study PCV was found to be higher than GCV followed by high heritability coupled with high genetic advance percent mean was observed for 8 characters among the 15 observations. This estimated that there was less influence. of environment and due to presence of high GA%M indicated necessity of utilizing these traits for further crop improvement programmes. The magnitude of genotypic correlation was higher than phenotypic correlation and significantly positive for maximum characters contributing to kernel yield per plant. |