Kedir et al Greener Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol. 9(1), pp. 1-6, 2019 ISSN: 2276-7770 Copyright ©2019, the copyright of this article is retained by the author(s) DOI Link: http://doi.org/10.15580/GJAS.2019.1.122718184 https://gjournals.org/GJAS Performance and Yield Advantages of Experimental Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Varieties over the Standard Checks in North-Western Ethiopia Kedir Wulchafo Hussen1*, Bedada Girma2 and Gudeta Nepir3 1Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Assosa Agric. Research Center, Assosa, Ethiopia 2Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Kulumsa Agric. Research Center, Kulumsa, Ethiopia 3Ambo University, e-mail: gudetangt@ gmail.c om, P.O. Box 552; Ambo, Ethiopia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article No.: 122718184 Type: Research DOI: 10.15580/GJAS.2019.1.122718184 Twelve advanced upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) experimental lines and two check varieties were evaluated for ten phonological and agronomic traits at Kamashi, Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State during the 2017/18 main cropping season. The objective of the study was to assess performance of the experimental cotton varieties for seed cotton and lint yield. The varieties differed significantly for most of the traits with wide ranging mean values for most of the characters thus indicating the existence of variations among the tested lines and for possibility of immediate commercial utilization and for improvements in future cotton breeding programs. Submitted: 27/12/2018 Accepted: 11/01/2019 Published: 31/01/2019 *Corresponding Author Kebir Wulchafo E-mail: kedir.wulchafo@ gmail.com Phone: +251910716747 Keywords: Variability, traits, heritability, upland cotton, Gossypium Return to Content View [Full Article – PDF] [Full Article – HTML] [Full Article – EPUB] Post-Publication Peer-review Rundown View/get involved, click [Peer-review] REFERENCES Ali. A, and Khan M (2003). Genetic analysis of morphological traits in upland cotton. The Pak Cotton, 44:25-26. Alkuddsi A.A, Patil SS, Manjula SM, Patil BC, Nadaf HL, Nandihali BS (2013). Genetic Variability Studies in Segregating Generation of Gossypium barbadense lines in Cotton, Plant Gene and Trait, Vol. 4, No.1790-94 (doi: 10.5376/pgt.2013.04.0017). Arkebe Geberegizabher, Alehegn Workie and Michael Kebede (2014). Cotton production manual in Amharic language for users. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Assosa Agricultural Research Center (2011).Farming system survey document. Balls W.L (1907). Note on Mendelian heredity in cotton. J. Agric. Sci. 2:216-220. Brubaker CL, Bourland FM, Wendel JE (1999). The origin and domestication of cotton. Chapter 1.1. In: CW Smith, and JT Cothren (eds.) Cotton: Origin, History, Technology and Production. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. pp 3-31. Fisher, R.A (1958). Statistical methods for researcher works. 13th edition. Olover and Boyed Edinburgh. Iqbal M, Chang M.A, Jabbar A, Iqbal M.Z, Hassan M, Islam N (2011). Inheritance of earliness and other characters in upland cotton. Online J. Biol. Sci. 3(6):585-590. Jenkins J.N (2003). Cotton. In: Traditional crop breeding practices: an historical review to serve as a baseline for assessing the role of modern biotechnology. OECD, pp 61-70. MOI (Ministry of Industry) (2015). National Cotton Development strategy for Ethiopia (unpublished). Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Scossiroli, R.E, Ferrari A, Haussmann G (1963). Genetic variability for quantitative characters in Alfalfa. pp. 597-608. Wu Z, Soliman KM, Zipf A, Saha S, Sharma GC, Jenkins JN (2005). Isolation and Characterization of Genes Differentially Expressed in Fiber of Gossypium barbadense L. The Journal of Cotton Science 9: 166-174. Cite this Article: Kedir WH; Bedada G; Gudeta N (2019). Performance and Yield Advantages of Experimental Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Varieties over the Standard Checks in North-Western Ethiopia. Greener Journal of Agricultural Sciences 9(1): 1-6, http://doi.org/10.15580/GJAS.2019.1.122718184
