eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-01-28 3 2 363 366 5177 article Afaq Ahmad Khan 1 M.Y.K. Ansari 1 Tariq Ahmad Bhat 1 Danish Shahab 1 Mutation Breeding and Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202 002 (India) Seeds of broad bean (Vicia faba L.) var. major were treated with 0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%, concentrations of diethyl sulphate (DES) to induce variability in seven economic traits viz. plant height, days to flowering, days to maturity, pods/plant, seeds/pod, seeds/plant and 100-seeds weight. The direction of shift in mean values for plant height indicated that negative micromutations out-weighed the positive ones. While as for days to flowering, days to maturity, pods/plant seeds/pod, seeds/plant and 100 seeds weight shift of mean was recorded both in positive and negative direction. Coefficient of variation was recorded to be higher in mutagen treated populations. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol3no2/des-induced-variations-for-economic-traits-in-broad-bean-vicia-faba-l/ DES; Vicia faba; Economic traits; Coefficient of variations