10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 3 Issue 4 2012(October - December) Seeds of lessThan i greaterThan Vicia faba lessThan /i greaterThan L. varieties 05/249 local and 05/233 HBP were subjected to induce variability in faba bean an economically important crop 0.02%, 0.04%, 0.06%, and 0.08% of ethyl methane sulphonate (EMS). The mutagenic treatments of ethyl methane sulphonate caused biological damage, which was measured by M lessThan sub greaterThan 1 lessThan /sub greaterThan parameters. Data on various quantitative traits such as, plant height, days to flowering, and days to maturity, pods length, number of fertile branches/plant, number of pods / plant, number of seeds / pod, 100 seeds weight (g) and total plant yield (g) were recorded in both the varieties of faba bean. The variants were morphologically quite distinct, as compared to the control and to each other. The increase in mean value of plant height, fertile branches/ plant and pods/plant were found to be significant in both the varieties, though seeds/ pod differed from the control but the values were insignificant . Number of seeds/pod and 100 seeds weight did not show any significant difference. The total plant yield did not show significant in var. 05/233 HBP but it is found significant in var. 05/249 local.  RUBINA PERVEEN, ALKA AND SAMIULLAH KHAN Vicia faba, EMS, quantitative traits 750-756