GROWTH AND YIELD RESPONSE OF TWENTY FOUR WHEAT LINES

An experiment was conducted at horticulture farm, Sher-e-Bangla agricultural university, Bangladesh during November 2013 to March 2014 to evaluate the performance of wheat lines. There were 24 wheat lines coded from L₁ to L₂₄ on the experiment following Randomized Completely Block Design with three replications. Maximum plant height (70.9 cm), leaf area (31.4 cm²), CGR (29.1 g/m²/day), NAR (4.1 g/m²/day), number of tiller (22.4/plant), number of effective tiller (18.9/plant), spike length (10.3 cm), number of spikelets (17.9/spike), number of grains (52.1/spike), 1000-seed weight (63.2 g), grain yield (4.1 t/ha), straw yield (5.9 t/ha) and biological yield (10.0 t/ha) were found from L₁₃ which was followed by L₁₅ and L₁₆ for most of the parameters while minimum was found from L₁.