Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Assessment of genetic variability among oriental pickling melon (Cucumis melo var. conomon) genotypes
Author(s): Sunil Kamagoud, Ratnakar M Shet, Sandhyarani Nishani, Shivanand Hongal, CN Hanchinmani, and Prashanta A
Abstract: Forty diverse genotypes of oriental pickling melon were used to study the genetic variability for growth and yield characters in oriental pickling melon in randomized block design with two replications during Kharif 2017-18. Analysis of variance had shown highly significant (P=0.01) difference among genotypes for sall the twenty characters related to growth and yield traits except for number of primary branches. The estimate of PCV is higher than GCV in all the characters studied indicating the influence of environment towards expression of characters. Higher PCV and GCV were recorded for nodes at first female flower appears, number of male flowers, number of female flowers, average fruit weight, number of fruits per vine, fruit yield per vine and seed weight per fruit indicating the higher variability present for these characters. High heritability coupled with high GAM recorded for 16 characters indicating predominance of additive components and hence, these traits can be improved by following simple selection.
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Sunil Kamagoud, Ratnakar M Shet, Sandhyarani Nishani, Shivanand Hongal, CN Hanchinmani,, Prashanta A. Assessment of genetic variability among oriental pickling melon (Cucumis melo var. conomon) genotypes. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):2630-2633.
