Genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance study for yield and its components in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria M.)
2011
Kumar, Arvind | Singh, B. | Mukesh Kumar, | Naresh, R.K.
The present investigation was conducted to magnitude the genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance in bottle gourd for identifying desirable parents. The experiment comprising 24 hybrids obtain by crossing 11 parents (eight lines viz. C-29, C-37, C-74, C-78, C-4, C-55, C-34, C-26 and three tester viz. C-12 (Azad Harit), C-21 (PSPL) and C-35 (KLG). The observation were recorded on days to germination, days to fruit setting, fruit length, fruit diameter, number of branches per plant, vine length, number of seeds per fruit, number of fruits per plant, days to maturity, fruit yield per plant. All the hybrids along with their parents were grown in a Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replication at Horticultural Research Center of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology-Meerut, during Kharif 2008 and 2009. Analysis of variance revealed the adequate variability among the all genotypes (Parents and Hybrids) for all characters. The phenotypic coefficient of variance (PCV) was slightly higher than their corresponding genotypic of variation GCV for all characters. It was observed that genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variations was high for fruit yield per plant and followed by fruit length and number of seeds per fruit. Heritability was high for fruit yield per plant, number of seeds per fruit and fruit diameter. Genetic advance was high for fruit yield per plant. Hence these characters may be improved through selection breeding methods.
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