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Variation between and within lentil landraces from Yemen Arab Republic

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The variation in 31 landraces of lentil collected from Yemen Arab Republic was partitioned to estimate the variation between populations and the variation between families within populations by studying a total of 568 progenies of randomly selected plants. There was significant variation between populations and between families within populations in seedling pigmentation, time to flower, time to maturity and plant height, but the predominant source of variation was between populations. This variation was unrelated to altitude of collection. The landraces were equally variable across characters. The implications of this analysis of variation on lentil breeding and germplasm collection are discussed.

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  1. M. A. Choudhary

    Present address: Directorate of Pulses, Ayub Agricultural Research Station, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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  1. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), P.O. Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria

    W. Erskine & M. A. Choudhary

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Erskine, W., Choudhary, M.A. Variation between and within lentil landraces from Yemen Arab Republic. Euphytica 35, 695–700 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00028577

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