The objective of this paper was to evaluate the relationships among characters in forage turnips (Raphanus sativus L.) and white lupine (Lupinus albus L.), and identify character for indirect selection. An experiment was conducted with forage turnips and another with white lupine, in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (latitude 29°42'S, longitude 53°49'W and 95m altitude). At harvest, were measured plant height, stem diameter, leaf number and fresh and dry masses of shoots in 300 plants of forage turnips and plant height, stem diameter, number of pods and the fresh and dry masses of shoots in 400 plants of white lupine. It was studied the relationship among the traits by scatter plots, correlation and path analysis. In the culture of forage turnips the stem diameter has a positive linear relationship with the fresh and dry masses of shoots and can be used for indirect selection. In the culture of white lupine the number of pods has a positive linear relationship with the fresh and dry masses of shoots and can be used for indirect selection.
Raphanus sativus L.; Lupinus albus L.; path analysis; indirect selection
