2024, Vol. 9, Special Issue 1

The present investigation was carried out at College of Agriculture, Pune during rabi, season, 2021. Sixteen genotypes (14+2) of French bean were sown in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications and in three different sowing dates i.e. E1(15/10/2021), E2 (5/11/2021) and E3 (25/11/2021). Twelve quantitative traits viz., days to 50 per cent flowering, days to maturity, plant height, plant spread, number of seeds per pod, pod length, 100-seed weight, harvest index and seed yield per plant were recorded based on the stability parameters using Eberhart and Russell model to estimate the stability for yield and its components.

The study revealed that environment E3 i.e., sowing date 25^th November was found most favorable for most of the characters under study. Both linear and non-linear component of G x E was found significant for the traits of days to maturity and seed yield per plant. On the basis of stability parameters the genotypes viz., Phule Rajmah, Varun, GRB-903 and EC-21754 was found most promising and these genotypes can be recommended to be used as the best parents for generating the breeding material suited for development of new varieties with wider adaptability over different sowing dates to a particular environment.