Performance of determinate and indeterminate RILs of Indian bean (Lablab purpureus L. Sweet)

Growth habit is an important agronomic trait that affects the production and productivity of crop plants including pulses. A preferential shift towards determinate growth types in pulses along with photo-insensitiveness was observed due to their reduced branching, shorter internodes, resistance lodging, shortened flowering period synchronized maturity, also its suitability for mechanical harvesting. In Indian bean, recently few genotypes were released cultivation nevertheless, most wild landraces are indeterminate habit. The present study performed phenotypic evaluation F7 RILs x crosses, which revealed some significant observations on time, plant height, number racemes produced, several yield-related traits bean. This information could be utilized selecting best type, optimum density, preferable geometry bean varieties.