Performance of coriander (Coriander sativum L.) genotypes for growth, yield and quality under arid eastern plain of India

Abstract

An investigation was carried out in National Research Centre on seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India during 2016
and 2017 rabi season for evaluation of Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) genotypes for growth, yield and quality. The
experiment was laid out in the Randomized Complete Block Design with 36 genotypes and were replicated thrice.
Significant differences were observed among genotypes for all the characters under study. The results revealed that,
UD-715 recorded maximum plant height (117.66, 107.56 and 110.10cm) at harvest stage during first and second
year, and in pooled analysis. The genotype JCR-975 has recorded less number of days flower initiation (13.23. 12.19
and 12.71 days) and days to 50% flowering (26.08, 23.98 and 25.03) in first year second year and in pooled
-1
analysis.The genotype VD-60 has recorded highest seed yield hectare (45.71, 41.19 and 43.45q) and minimum in
genotype MKSM-1084 (11.02, 11.85 and 11.45q) both the year and in pooled analysis respectively. The genotypes
ACr-78 and NDCOR-4 has reported highest essential oil percentage of 0.37% where as it was lowest in UD-629 and
the genotype NDCOR-4 (24.97%) significantly out yielded compare to all the genotypes and lowest amount of total oil
was reported in the genotype ACr-78 (3.40%). The genotypes VD-60, UD-715, ACr-121, ACr-25 and Acr-1 were
identified as best performing genotypes and offer a good scope of selection for desired traits and can be used for
parental material for breeding programme.