Abstract:
The present investigation was conducted on 36 geographically diverse Ethiopian accessions of
fenugreek with an objective to study the extent of genetic and phenotypic variation among yield
and its related traits. The accessions differed significantly for most of the characters and exhibited
a relatively wide range. These characters indicated existence of variation among the tested
accessions. High GCV was only observed in number of secondary branches per plant. High PCV
were observed in number of primary and secondary branches per plant, number of seeds per pod,
and 1000-seeds weight. High heritability values were observed in the number of seed per pod
(63.1%), plant height (65.3%), biological yield per plot (80.1%), seed yield per plot (89.0%), day to
maturity (80.8%), and day to flowering (71.4%). High genetic advance was observed for days to
maturity, number of pod per plant, number of secondary branches per plant, biological yield and
seed yield per plot. Seed yield per plot had positive and significant genotypic correlations with all
traits except days to 50% flowering and plant height. Seed yield per plot had positive and significant
phenotypic association with number of primary branches and plant height at maturity. This study
revealed that there is good scope of concurrent improvement in yield by exploiting the Ethiopian
germplasm of fenugreek
