National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Okra or lady's finger, (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench) commonly known as bhindi in India is the most popular vegetable of the family malvaceae, is an important vegetable of the tropical and subtropical region. It is valued for its medicinal properties to cure renal colic, leucorrhoea, chronic dysentery and goitre due to high iodine content in fruits. In okra, a large number of varieties have been developed but substantial increase in productivity could not be realized. There is a necessary to improve the yield per unit area to achieve the increased production from a limited land. The experiment was undertaken to study the combining ability for yield and its contributing traits in okra. The experimental material consisted of 30 genotype (7 parents, 2 standard checks 21 F1 hybrids) was conducted in a randomized block design for fifteen characters. The mean square due to gca (General combining ability), sca (Specific combining ability) effects were significant for pod yield and yield contributing traits studied. The parents KashiKranti, ArkaAbhay and PusaSawani were found to be best general combiner for most of the characters including yield per plant and can be exploited well in further breeding programme. The estimates of effects revealed that the cross combinations ArkaAbhay x KashiKranti, KashiPragati x PusaSawani,ArkaAbhay x Punjab Padmini,PunjabPadmini x PusaSawani and ArkaAnamika x KashiKranti exhibited positive significant effect for yield attributing character and some of its related traits could be used as heterotic hybrids.
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