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Heterosis for Fruit Yield and its Components in Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)


Affiliations
1 Department of Vegetable Crops, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, India
2 Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Hessaraghatta, Bangalore-560089, India
3 Farm Advisory Service Scheme, Amritsar-143001, India
 

An experiment was conducted with 14 parents and 40 F1s to study heterosis in brinjal. Crosses showing significant heterosis over the better parent were: HE12 X Aruna for first fruit set; BR-112 X Aruna for fruit length and diameter; Pant Samrat X Punjab Neelam for number of fruits per plant; H-7 X Aruna for fruit weight; H-9 X S-16 for total yield per plant; Negative heterosis were recorded in KT-4 X Aruna for borer and Pant in Rituraj X Punjab Neelam for nematode infestation.

Keywords

Brinjal, Heterosis, Yield, Better Parent.
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Kuldeep Singh
Department of Vegetable Crops, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, India
A. S. Sidhu
Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Hessaraghatta, Bangalore-560089, India
Ajay Kumar
Farm Advisory Service Scheme, Amritsar-143001, India

Abstract


An experiment was conducted with 14 parents and 40 F1s to study heterosis in brinjal. Crosses showing significant heterosis over the better parent were: HE12 X Aruna for first fruit set; BR-112 X Aruna for fruit length and diameter; Pant Samrat X Punjab Neelam for number of fruits per plant; H-7 X Aruna for fruit weight; H-9 X S-16 for total yield per plant; Negative heterosis were recorded in KT-4 X Aruna for borer and Pant in Rituraj X Punjab Neelam for nematode infestation.

Keywords


Brinjal, Heterosis, Yield, Better Parent.