Characterization and Evaluation of Bambara Groundnut (<i>Vigna subterranea</i> (L.) Verdc.) for Yield and Related Traits in Assosa Zone, North Western Ethiopia

Mesay Paulos; Gobeze Loha

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Characterization and Evaluation of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) for Yield and Related Traits in Assosa Zone, North Western Ethiopia

Mesay Paulos, Gobeze Loha

Published in International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 6)

Received: 22 November 2021 Accepted: 8 December 2021 Published: 24 December 2021

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Bambara groundnut is a future emerging legume is usually known as a poor man’s crop or as “women´s crop” and newly noted as crop for new millennium. It is highly nutritious nut with high content of essential amino acids such as methionine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, phenylalanine, threonine, valine and tryptophan that makes the crop as an important for food security. In this context, a field experiment was conducted during 2019/20 cropping season at Sonka testing site of Asosa zone in north western Ethiopia with objective to estimate the variability of bambara groundnut genotypes with respect to important quantitative and qualitative traits. Treatments consisted in 20 accessions collected from five distracts of Benishangul Gumuze province in north western Ethiopia. The treatments were laid out in a randomized block design with three replications. All the qualitative characteristics recorded for genotypes showed different modalities and frequencies at vegetative stage with 70.12% of the fully expanded leaflet colour, 74.26% oval terminal leaflet shape, 76.24% petiole green colour, 78.22% stem green colour, 88.27% sparse hair on their stems, 70.41% spreading types, 81.33% rounded base with a point at the top, 90.11% yellowish brown pods at harvest and 90.06% oval shaped seeds. With respect to quantitative traits, genotypes AMN/04/013, AMN/04/014, AMN/04/015, AMN/04/019 and AMN/04/020 gave relatively higher grain yield (>2000 kg/ha) with the highest grain yield recorded for genotype AMN/04/016. Thus, these genotypes showed relatively better adaptation at tested location. Higher correlation values were observed for days to maturity, plant height, number of stems per plant, pods per plant, seed per pod and HSW indicating that these traits are very important to be used in selection for the crop improvement. Agronomic and morphological evaluations have provided more accurate estimation of genetic diversity, the raw material of plant breeding. In general this study enabled to determine how the influential traits direct to improve bambara groundnut genotypes.

Published in	International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences (Volume 7, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijaas.20210706.16
Page(s)	291-297
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Crop, Genotypes, Grain Yield, Heritability, Legume

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Biodiversity Institute of Ethiopia, Assosa Branch Office, Assosa, Ethiopia
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Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

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  title = {Characterization and Evaluation of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) for Yield and Related Traits in Assosa Zone, North Western Ethiopia},
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T1  - Characterization and Evaluation of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) for Yield and Related Traits in Assosa Zone, North Western Ethiopia
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AU  - Gobeze Loha
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VL  - 7
IS  - 6
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