“Maize is an important cereal that is much sensitive to drought stress throughout its life cycle, this stress has serious impacts on its morphological and phenological attributes. Direct selection for yield under stress conditions may be unfruitful, so selection for yield contributing traits is implied. Present study was conducted to evaluate indigenously developed inbred lines and to assess the strength of correlations between different yield contributing traits. Inbred lines IB-13, IB-43, IB-35 were found drought tolerant and are positively related with yield contributing traits like number of rows (NOR), grains per row (GPR), 100 grain weight (100GW), total grains (TG) while inbred lines IB-47, IB-20, IB-19, IB-48, IB-16, IB-34, and IB-9 were performing low for yield related traits thus found drought susceptible. Cob length (CL), cob diameter (CD), number of rows (NOR) and grains per row (GRP) showed significant positive correlation with total grains (TG). Cluster analysis was performed to assess the var iability in the inbred lines and five clusters were made according to their relatedness. Moreover, parameters like TG, GPR, 100GW, NOR followed by CL, NOC with high GAM values can be used as selection standard for better selection purposes. The se selected inbred lines can be used in future breeding programs.
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