Title: To study genetic variability, heritability and character association in long melon [Cucumis melo var. utilissimus]
Abstract: The experimetn was conducted in Randomized Block Design with three replications during Zaid season 2002. The experimental material compared of 30 strains of long melon were studied for phenotypic, genotypic, correlation coefficients, variability, hertiability, genetic advance and path coefficient analysis were worked out to measure the association among nine quantitative traits. Yield per plant had the positive and significant correlation with days to flower and highly significant association also observed number of nodes per vine, width of fruit, length of fruit and number of fruit per plant. Path coefficient analysis revealed that number of fruits per plant and width of fruit showed maximum positive direct effect on yield, per plant genetic variability present in the population because most of the plant characters are qualitatively inhertied and highly influenced by the environmental fluclitations. All the characters showed moderate to high heritability. Heritability estimates high for length of vine, days to flowers and length of fruit. The highest estimates of genetic advance in percent of mean was observed for number of nodp.s per vine. The estimation of genetic advance in per cent of mean were comparatively low for width of fruit.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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