Correlation and path analysis studies in garlic (Allium sativum L.)

Abstract

Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is one of the most important bulb vegetable grown and used as flavoring agent for foods. At national level, it is the second most important cultivated bulb crop after onion in area and production (Shankar et al. 1997). Garlic products have become popular in recent years and a variety of culinary and pharmaceutical preparations are now available in market. In the Asian continent, people use fresh leaves of garlic as salad and pickle is also prepared from garlic cloves (Pandey and Singh 1987). Garlic has several medicinal values such as antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antioxidant and anticancer properties (Harris et al. 2001). Effective improvement programme in vegetative propagated crop depends upon the availability of sufficient genetic variability, so that selection could be done