Evaluation of some garden pea cultivars for growth and yield characteristics under assiut conditions

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An experiment was conducted in 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons to study the performance of different cultivars of garden pea under Assiut condition.

Five cultivars were evaluated on black soil in replicated randomized block design and results were found significant for all characters among these cultivars.

All cultivars exhibited considerable variation in their performance for most of the parameters.

Better growth and yield parameters in terms of days to flowering, number of branches/plant, green pod length, green pod width, number of green pod/plant, number of seeds per pod, total dry seed yield per feddan were noticed in all cultivars.

Maximum number of branches per plant was observed in Alaska (6.5) and minimum was in Master B (4.5).

In case of number of pods per plant was maximum in Dwarf Gray Sugar (64.8) followed by Victory Freezer (60.0) and minimum in Lincoln (52.5).

Among all these cultivars, highest total dry seed yield was recorded in Master B cultivar (1430.30 and 1440.50 kg/Fadden respectively).

As general Alaska and Dwarf Gray Sugar may be selected as promising cultivars under Assiut conditions