Variability studies in cowpea

Abstract

Studies were undertaken with seventeen cowpea varieties representing seventeen clusters, in the Department of Agricultural Botany, College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara during 1979-80 to estimate the extent of genetic variability, association among the selected characters and its partition into direct and indirect effects through Path Coefficient Analysis. A discriminant function analysis was carried out with a view to isolating superior genotypes from among those studied.