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Mukesh Kumar, Binod Kumar and Chandan Kishoremay be effective in early generation for these traits. However this trend was not uniformfor all the characters as high heritability coupled with low genetic advance for plantheight and days to flowering indicates the preponderance of non-additive gene effectsfor expression of these characters. Thus, there is a limited scope for improvement inthese traits through selection breeding. Similar results in wheat have been also reportedby Kamboj (2007) and Sen and Toms (2007).The present study concluded that the characters viz; number of grains per spike,1000 grain weight and grain yield per plant should be given top priorities during selectionfor genetic improvement of wheat.REFERENCESAsif, M., Majahid, M. Y., Kisana, N. S., Mustafa, S. Z. and Ahmad, I. (2004)Heritability, genetic variability and path coefficient of some traits in spring wheat.Sarhad Journal Agriculture, 20(1): 87-91.Bergale, S., Mirdula, B., Holkar, A. S., Ruwali, K. N. and Prasad, S. V. S. (2001)Pattern of variability, character association and path analysis in wheat. AgricultureScience Digest., 221(4): 258-260.Burton, G. W. and Devane, E. W. (1953) Estimation of heritability in tall Fescuefrom replicated cloned material. Agronomy Journal., 45: 475-481.Burton, G. W. (1952) Quantitative inheritance in grasses. Proceeding of 6 th internationalGrassland Congress 1: 227-283.Dwivedi, A. N, Power, I. S. and Shashi, M. (2002) Studies on variability parameterand character association among yields and quality attributing traits in wheat.Haryana Agricultural University Journal Research, 32(2): 72-80.Johnson, R. E., Robinson, H. W. and Constock, H. E. (1955) Estimates of geneticand environmental variability in soybean. Agronomy Journal, 47: 314-318.Kamboj, R. K. (2007) Estimating parameters of variability, adaptive value and selectioncoefficient in bread wheat under salinity and drought stress conditions.Agriculture Science Digest, 27(1): 30-33.Kumar, B., Lal, G. M., Ruchi and Upadhyay, A. (2009) Genetic variability diversityand association of quantitative traits with grain yield in bread wheat (Titicumaestivum L.). Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences., 1(1): 4-6.78