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Fifty germplasm of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) along with five checks namely Hisar Suvarna, Hisar Sonali, RMt-361, RMt-1 and AFg-3 were evaluated in Augmented Block Design in five blocks during Rabi 2013-2014 at the research farm of National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Tabiji, Ajmer (Rajasthan) to estimate variability, character association and path analysis among seed yield and its contributing traits. Analysis of variance revealed significant variability for most of the traits. High estimates of phenotypic coefficient of variance along with genotypic coefficient of variance as well as broad sense heritability, genetic advance and genetic advance as percentage of mean were observed for days to 50 percent flowering and seed yield per plant. Seed yield per plant was significantly and positively correlated with plant height, number of seeds per pod and number of pods per plant, while its association with days to 50 percent flowering, primary branches per plant, secondary branches per plant number of pods on main stem, pod length, shelling percent and test weight was non-significant but positive. Path analysis revealed that test weight, number of seeds per pod, number of pods per plant, number of pods on main stem and secondary branches per plant were the important characters for selection of high yielding germplasm line as they exhibited direct and positive effect on seed yield per plant.
Keywords: Fenugreek, variability, character association, path coefficient.