Table 4.
Advanced varietal trial II (second year) of the ICAR-All India network project on arid legumes conducted during 2020-21 to compare the yield (kgha–1) performance of the introgression line KBC 12 (MC 17−2) produced in the genetic background of C-152 with the recurrent genotype at ten locations in Southern India. (Source: ICAR-All India network project on arid legumes annual report 2020-21)
| Entries | Bangalore | Pattambi | Coimbatore | Vamban | Tirupati | Dharwad | Madhurai | Ananthapuram | Warangal | Pandharpur | Mean | Yield advantage over checks (%) | Freq* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MC-17-2 (KBC-12) | 1282 | 1721 | 1465 | 1332 | 829 | 1021 | 904 | 551 | 1125 | 857 | 1109 | - | 8/10 |
| KBC 9 (Ch) | 1134 | 890 | 1760 | 1568 | 1110 | 1056 | 744 | 709 | 1200 | 935 | 1111 | - | - |
| DC 15 (Ch) | 1148 | 1011 | 1519 | 1660 | 785 | 917 | 796 | 817 | 1206 | 1109 | 1097 | 1.10 | - |
| TPTC 29 | 1167 | 282 | 1583 | 1318 | 589 | 1167 | 781 | 476 | 1663 | 1235 | 1026 | 8.10 | - |
| LSD @ 0.05 | 82.03 | 124.73 | 239.69 | 301.08 | 300.70 | 102.40 | 108.81 | 140.88 | 278.59 | 116.01 | - | - | - |
| CV (%) | 6.33 | 8.16 | 11.65 | 16.56 | 21.63 | 5.88 | 8.24 | 15.02 | 13.76 | 6.45 | - | - | - |
| Experimental mean (kg/ha) | 775 | 914 | 1230 | 1087 | 831 | 1042 | 789 | 561 | 1211 | 1076 | - | - |
*Frequency indicates the ratio of a number of locations in which the introgression line performs better or comparable than the best check variety to the total number of locations evaluated; Ch check variety, CV coefficient of variation, LSD least significant difference