Author(s):

Sandeep Yadav, VB Singh, Rohit Maurya, Vivek Thapliyal and Kuwar Anurag Pratap Singh

Abstract: Experimental material for the study was consisted of 32 genotypes of two groups (long purple and round purple) including three checks (Punjab Sadabahar, Navina and Swarna Mani). The experiment was conducted in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Each treatment consisted of 20 plants in two rows, having spacing of 60x45cm with net plot size of 4.5x1.2m. The experiment was executed at Main Experimental, Station of Department of Vegetable Science, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad, during Kharif2015-2016. Observations were recorded on 10 quantitative characters viz.,), primary branches per plant, secondary branches per plant, days to 50% flowering, days to first fruit harvest, plant height (cm), fruit length (cm), fruit circumference (cm),, fruits per plant, average fruit weight (g) and total fruit yield per plant (kg). The analysis of variance for the design of experiment indicated highly significant differences among the genotypes for all the traits. Based on mean performance of genotypes NDB-12-9, NDB-12-18 and NDB-12-3 for long purple and NDB-11-10, NDB-11-17, NDB-11-15 and NDB-11-6 for round purple fruit were found as most promising genotypes for total fruit yield per plant. High magnitude of variability was observed in case of fruits per plant followed by average fruit weight, fruit circumference, fruit length, total fruit yield per plant, secondary branches per plant, primary branches per plant, plant height and Days to 50% flowering. Days to first fruit harvest exhibited low value of variability. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance in per cent of mean were recorded for most of the traits except days to first fruit harvest, days to 50% flowering, plant height indicating opportunity for selection response.

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