Volume : II, Issue : VIII, August - 2013

Genetic Diversity in Fennel (Foeniculum Vulgare Mill)

Mamta Sharma, Dr. R. S. Meena

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Fennel is an important seed spice crop, having high market value. The present productivity of the country is quite low seeing the per unit time and area it takes as it’s a long duration crop having high biomass. Therefore to increase the present productivity levels there is need to identify and develop high yielding genotypes. Hence the present study was done to know the extent of diversity present among twelve varieties of fennel and their sixty six F1’s for eight component traits. The extent of variability observed for each trait was considerable, but the extent of vigour expected in F1’s as compared with the parents was not too high, which shows lack of diverse alleles in the genotypes selected. There is an immense need to collect geographically diverse genotypes of fennel to strengthen the ongoing improvement programmes on fennel.

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Mamta Sharma, Dr. R.S. Meena Genetic Diversity in Fennel (Foeniculum Vulgare Mill) International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 2, Issue : 8 August 2013

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