Vijayakumar, K.Jacob MathewSukumaran, C.K.2014-06-092014-06-092007-02-08J.Plantn.Crops 1991 Suppl. v-18 p-373-375http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2576Data on 192 seedlings from 16 families of West Coast Tall variety was utilised for constructing a discriminant function for classifying seedlings into high/low yielders at the nursery stage using 11 seedling characters. Time taken for flowering was adopted to judge a palm as high/low yielding. The function based on this criterion was significant. Girth, number of leaves, weight of the seedling and number of thick roots were found to contribute maximum in discriminating between potentially high/low yielders.enArticle