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 |
The present investigation was conducted at the Vegetables Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, duringKharif season of 2017 and 2018to determine heterosis in 28 crosses developed from 7 lines and 4 testers of bitter gourd. The testers used were BGCV-2, OBGCS-2, Shaktigopal Local, OBGCS-1 while Pusa Do Mausami was used as check. Most of the crosses manifested significant heterosis for many of the horticultural traits. From the study, it was observed in case of traits like fruit length and fruit girth, the cross Jaunpuri Green × OBGCS-1 exhibited highly significant and positive heterosis over mid parent, better parent as well as standard check. Also the top three performing hybrids which recorded higher value of mean as well as high percentage of heterosis were Meghna × BGCV-2, Meghna × OBGCS-2 and Katheri × OBGCS-2 in case of total soluble solid. The cross combinations Katheri × BGCV-2, Katheri × OBGCS-1 and Katheri × OBGCS-2 was found to be best which expressed significant positive heterosis over mid parent (50.52, 31.62 and 27.06 %), better parent (37.99, 18.03 and 15.86 %) and standard parent (47.98, 26.57 and 24.24 %) respectively for total fruit yield.
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