Comparative Study of Morphological and Physico-Chemical Traits in Different Brassica Genotypes

Abstract

Brassica species are members of the Brassicaceae family, and several of them are commonly consumed by humans and oil industry. The present research was conducted for the comparative study of morphological and physico-chemical traits in different Brassica genotypes at experimental area of Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during crop season 2022-2023. The experimental material was comprised of 11 genotypes of Brassica in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. The data was recorded on number of branches per plant, number of silique per branch, number of silique per plant, length of silique (cm), height of the plant (cm), seed yield per plant, oil contents%, protein contents% and fatty acid profiling%. All the genotypes showed highly significant differences among them for all traits except for number of branches plant. Plant of the height, number of siliques per branch, number of siliques per plant, length of silique and seed yield per plant showed highly significant and negative correlation with protein contents. Ecosenoic acid, erucic acid and glucosinolate had highly significant and positive correlation with protein content but oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid showed highly significant and negative correlation with protein content. Oleic acid and stearic acid had significant and negative correlation with oil content. The results of the present study indicate that the oil contents of Shiralle was possibly suitable for human consumption and the oil contents of UAF 11, Dunkled and UAF 16 was suitable for industrial purposes. UAF 17 and Shiralle performed better for seed-related traits.