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Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a predominant pulse crop grown and consumed in India that plays an important role in sustainable food and nutritional security. It is very difficult to increase the area under cultivation for improving the production and hence the selections of distinct traits for the genotypes have to be focussed for enhancing the productivity. Fifteen genotypes of Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.)) have been evaluated to study the correlation and path analysis for seed yielding traits and its contributing characters. Racemes per plant show positive and highly significant correlation with grain yield per plant to emerge as most important associates of seed yield. Studies on path analysis identified the characters viz., racemes per plant, total number of pods and pod bearing length as the most important direct yield contributing traits which merit due consideration at the time of devising selection strategy aimed at developing high yielding varieties in pigeonpea. The information was fetched together after applying various statistical tools in order to make the outcomes of association studies for the various pigeonpea breeding programs.

Keywords: Correlation, Direct-indirect effects, Pigeonpea, Quantitative traits, Selection.