EVALUATION OF THE GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCE OF TWELVE MUSTARD LINES

An experiment was conducted at Horticulture farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh to evaluate the growth and yield performance of mustard lines during the period from October 2013 to March 2014. Twelve lines (coded from L₁ to L₁₂) were used on the experiment using Completely Randomized Design with three replications. Maximum leaves number (35.2/plant), number of branches (22.7/plant), photosynthetic rate (14.1 µmolm^-2s^-1), number of siliquae (222.0/plant), number of seeds (1997.0/plant) and yield (5.84 g/plant, 581.7 g/plot and 3.74 t/ha) with minimum 1000-seeds weight (2.92 g) was found from L₁. L₇ was found as best for seeds/siliquae (14.0) and 1000-seed weight (3.22 g). L₉ was also performed well after L₁ and provided 166.0 siliquae/plant, 1659.0 seeds/plant, 4.91 g seed/plant, 489.7 g seeds/plot and 3.26 t seeds/ha. But L₁ was the best line concerning yield.