Fig. 3.

Direct effect path coefficients of days to 50% flowering (a), days to maturity (b), shoot biomass at maturity (c), harvest index (d), pod number m⁻² (e), seed number m⁻² (f), seeds pod⁻¹ (g), 100-seed weight (h), crop growth rate (i), reproductive duration (j) and partitioning coefficient (k) on grain yield at maturity of 12 diverse genotypes of chickpea both under (A) drought stressed and (B) optimal irrigation in a Vertisol during 2009–10 and 2010–11 post-rainy seasons. The different filling colors of bars denote different levels of significance of correlations between various shoot traits and grain yield. The correlation coefficient value of each trait with the grain yield associations were mentioned on the top of each bar.