Morphological Characterization of Recombinant Inbred Lines of Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill]

Morphological characterization facilitates the seed production agencies to identify varieties on phenotypic basis by their distinguished characters. The presence of sufficient variability for various agro-morphological traits, as well improvement these traithrough selection and introduction new alleles, lines, accessions into breeding activity from both exotic indigenous collections, aids in identification potential donors. In present study, 100 genotypes including 96 RIL (recombinant inbred lines), two parental national checks were planted at Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur. Fourteen phenological trait viz. growth type, habit, flower colour, leaf size lateral leaflet, shape intensity green pod hairiness, pod: colour hair, size, shape, coat testa, lustre, hilum funicle observed different stages plants. Among Semi- determinant type (97%), Semi erect habit (98%), white (99%), Pod hair (100%) same testa (97%) most dominating. Whereas Seed [yellow (74%), yellow-green (24%) Green (2 %)], Hilum [black (48%) brown (43%) imperfect black (9%)] [spherical (48%), spherical flattened (33%), (16%) elongated (3%)] varied among genotypes.