NUTRACEUTICAL ANALYSIS IN FABA BEAN (VICIA FABA) ON VARIABILITY AND YIELD

Author (s) : Dr.D.KARUNA THARA, N.VINODHARSHINI

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Abstract :
Faba bean (Vicia faba) also known as broad bean is mainly grown in hills and northern plains for its protein rich pulse and green pods which are used as vegetable. It is an annual crop used both for human consumption and as well as live stock feed. Faba bean is grown in over 3 million hectares in the world with a total production is over 4.5 million tons. Efforts have been made to evaluate, characterize, conserve and catalogue the genetic resources of faba bean. Improvement for the seed and protein yields are receiving foremost attention in this crop. Hence there is a need to intensify efforts to search for appropriate donors for utilization in the specific breeding programmes. The crop should be beneficial for the farmers, producers and to the users. There is a need for development of high yielding nutritionally rich and should be free of anti nutritional factors such as tannin and phytate genotypes. In the present paper an attempt has been made to evaluate the genetic resources of a faba bean augmented recently to assess their potential use in varietal development programme for faba bean. Thirty five faba bean genotypes were assessed for nine agronomic and quality traits against three elite varieties HFB-2, HFB-1 and Vikrant in Augmented Block Design during Rabi 2018-19 and 2019-20 under the multilocation programme of AICRN on potential crops. There was significant difference among the blocks for pod length and 100 seed weight but no difference was observed for days to flowering, days to maturity, plant height, number of pods per plant, number of seed per pod and yield per plant. Among germplasm line, ET218772 (33.81 g), ET218776 (30.78 g), ET218725 (28.69 g), ET218786 (28.29 g) showed highest seed yield per plant as compared to check variety Vikrant (27.62 g). The genotypes ET218768 (27.07%) had a higher protein content than the best check Vikrant (26.89%). The least antinutritional factor Vicine-convicine was found in ET218768 (0.52%).

Keywords : Nutraceutical analysis.

Conference Date : 13/11/2020

Pages : 245

Paper ID : 20245