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Investigation Of Morphoagronomic Performance And Selection Indices In Theinternational Safflower Panel For Breeding Perspectives, Fawad Ali, Abdurrahi̇m Yilmaz, Hassan Javed Chaudhary, Muhammad Azhar Nadeem, Malik Ashiq Rabbani, Yusuf Arslan, Muhammad Amjad Nawaz, Ephrem Habyarimana, Faheem Shehzad Baloch

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Developing high yielding safflower cultivars with good adaptation to diverse environmental conditions can improve production in terms of seed yield and reduce the deficiency in edible oil. The genetic variability that exists among and within populations for desirable agronomic traits can be used to develop elite cultivars. A total of 94 safflower accessions from 26 different countries were used in this study to evaluate morphoagronomic performance, determine the pattern of similarity centers, and identify the best performing accessions by conducting 2 field experiments in Pakistan and Turkey using augmented design. Genetic diversity for important yield and yield traits was described …