Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz is a drought and cold tolerant crop and has high amount of α-linolenic acid. But its full potential has not been explored yet because of little breeding work done for its genetic improvement. In present study, a moderate realized heritability (39%) was obtained for yield indicating that direct selection for yield could be effective for making improvement. Seed yield was also found to be positively correlated with plant height, leaf area and oil contents. Hence selection on the basis of these morphological traits would also be valuable for improvement of camelina lines. Maximum coefficient of variation (CV) was exhibited by number of capsules followed by numbers of inflorescence, secondary branches and leaf area. This showed the existence of sufficient variation for these traits among camelina lines. First three PCs of Principal Component Analysis exhibited more than one eigenvalue and they contributed 63.5% variability which was given importance for further explanation. The PC1, PC2 and PC3 showed 35.5%, 14.4% and 13.5% variability among traits under study.

Keywords: Correlation; False flax; PC analysis; Response to selection; Selection differential