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      <PublisherName>emergentresearch</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Emergent Life Sciences Research</JournalTitle>
      <PISSN>2395-6658 (</PISSN>
      <EISSN>) 2395-664X (Print)</EISSN>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
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        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleTitle>Assessment of variability among inbred lines of sunflower for agronomic and confectionery parameters and relationships among these parameters</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
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          <FirstName>Vineeta</FirstName>
          <LastName>Kaila</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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      <Abstract>Fifty eight sunflower inbreds were evaluated for seventeen morphological parameters during spring 2019 and 2020 with the objective of understanding the relationships among different traits for facilitating indirect selection of superior confectionery sunflower inbreds. The results from the study revealed that indirect selection for seed yield can be done on the basis of general vigour of the plant since positive correlation was revealed among biological yield and seed yield per plant. Other parameters that exhibited higher correlation with seed yield per plant were filled seeds per head and harvest index however these traits can not provide any advantage in selection process. For confectionery inbreds seed length is yet another important trait for making selections since seed length exhibited negative correlation with seed volume weight which is highly correlated with oil content. Thus inbreds having higher seed length had lower oil content which is a desirable trait for confectionery sunflower. The investigation also helped in identification of sunflower inbred EC734798 as superior for confectionery purpose based on principal component analysis and EC734792, EC734806, EC734808, EC734831, EC734866, EC734870 and EC734790 were identified as superior inbreds based on cluster analysis. Furthermore inbreds EC734810, EC734816I, EC734817II, EC734837 and EC734867 can be utilized for improving seed length parameter among confectionery sunflowers.</Abstract>
      <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage>
      <Keywords>Confectionery Sunflower, PCA, Clustering, Correlation</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://www.emergentresearch.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=14726&amp;title=Assessment of variability among inbred lines of sunflower for agronomic and confectionery parameters and relationships among these parameters</Abstract>
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