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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">pnut</journal-id>
			<journal-id journal-id-type="allenpress-id">pnut</journal-id>
			<journal-title>Peanut Science</journal-title>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0095-3679</issn>
			<issn pub-type="active">0095-3679</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>American Peanut Research and Education Society</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3146/i0095-3679-11-2-12</article-id>
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				<article-title>Character Association Among Vegetative and Reproductive Traits in Advanced Generation of Intersubspecific and Intrasubspecific Crosses in Peanut<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>1</sup></xref></article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
					<name name-style="western">
						<given-names>S. N.</given-names><x xml:space="preserve"> </x>
						<surname>Nigan</surname>
					</name><x xml:space="preserve">, </x>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
					<name name-style="western">
						<given-names>S. L.</given-names><x xml:space="preserve"> </x>
						<surname>Dwivedi</surname>
					</name><x xml:space="preserve">, </x>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
					<name name-style="western">
						<given-names>T. S. N.</given-names><x xml:space="preserve"> </x>
						<surname>Sigamani</surname>
					</name><x xml:space="preserve">, and </x>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple">
					<name name-style="western">
						<given-names>R. W.</given-names><x xml:space="preserve"> </x>
						<surname>Gibbons</surname>
					</name>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				
					<aff id="aff2">
					<label><sup>2</sup></label>Groundnut Breeder, Regional Groundnut Program for Southern Africa, Chitedze Research Station, Private Bag 63, Lilongwe, Malawi; Plant Breeder, Former Research Associate and Principal Plant Breeder, ICRISAT, respectively
				</aff>
			</contrib-group>
			<author-notes>
				<fn fn-type="fn" id="fn1">
					<p><sup>1</sup>International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), ICRISAT Center, Patancheru P. O. 502 324, India, ICRISAT Journal Article No. 337.</p>
				</fn>
			</author-notes>
			<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
				<month>7</month>
				<year>1984</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>11</volume>
			<issue>2</issue>
			<fpage>95</fpage>
			<lpage>98</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="accepted">
					<day>14</day>
					<month>11</month>
					<year>1984</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<permissions>
				<copyright-statement>American Peanut Research and Education Society</copyright-statement>
				<copyright-year>1984</copyright-year>
				<copyright-holder>American Peanut Research and Education Society</copyright-holder>
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			<abstract>
				<title>Abstract</title>
				<p>Character association studies among various vegetative and reproductive trains in groundnut (<italic>Arachis hypogaea</italic> L.) are important, because of the subterranean nature of pod development. Ninety-seven advanced generation selections derived from intersubspecific and intrasubspecific crosses were grown under high and low fertility environments for two years at ICRISAT to study the association among sixteen vegetative and reproductive traits. Only weight per mature seed with most of the vegetative traits and mature pods per plant, mature pod weight, mature seed per plant, and mature seed weight with height of the main axis and nodes with pegs showed significant positive association. Reproductive traits were significantly and positively associated among themselves. Correlation and path coefficient analyses further revealed that selection for increased mature seed yield per plant would be possible by selecting the component characters such as mature pods per plant, mature pod weight, and mature seeds per plant individually or in combination.</p>
			</abstract>
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				<title>Key Words</title>
				<kwd>Groundnut</kwd><x xml:space="preserve">; </x><x xml:space="preserve">, </x>
				<kwd>Arachis hypogaea</kwd><x xml:space="preserve">; </x><x xml:space="preserve">, </x>
				<kwd>correlations</kwd><x xml:space="preserve">; </x><x xml:space="preserve">, </x>
				<kwd>Path coefficient</kwd>
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