Per Se Performance of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) Hybrids for Fruit Yield and its component Traits under Normal and Organic Environments

Author: Chander Kanta Kumawat, G.U. Kulkarni, R.S. Tomar, B.A. Monapara, A.G. Pansuriya and L.K. Sharma

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Abstract

Eggplant is an economically important vegetable crop with an extensive diversity among landraces and close relatives. An investigation was carried out in brinjal using 7 diverse parents and mated in full diallel fashion to obtain 42 hybrids evaluated with one standard check GJBH-4 in randomized block design with three replications in normal fertilizer (E1) and organic environment (E2). Observation recorded on 13 characters fruit yield and its attributing traits. According to per se performance for fruit yield per plant JBCL-16-12 × GJB-3, GRB-5 × JBCL-16-12, JBCL-17-01 × GRB-5 and JBCL-16-12 × GJB-2 in normal fertilizer (E1) and JBCL-16-12 × GJB-2, SB × GRB-5, JBCL-16-12 × GRB-5, GJB-3 × GRB-5 and JBCL-17-01 × GJB-3 in organic environment (E2) found superior over standard check. These hybrids can be release as a commercial hybrids or further use in breeding programme to obtain elite segregants in respective environment.

Keywords

Brinjal, hybrids, per se performance, fruit yield, normal fertilizer condition, organic condition

Conclusion

The significant variation for fruit yield and its component traits were observed in normal fertilizer condition (E1) as well as organic environment (E2). The slow release of nutrient in organic environment resulting in inferior mean value of fruit yield and its component traits viz., days to first flowering, days to first picking, fruit length, fruit girth, average fruit weight, number of fruits per plant, number of primary branches, plant height, days to last picking, number of pickings. The quality parameter TSS content and less fruit borer infestation were good in organic environment. According to fruit yield per plant JBCL-16-12 × GJB-3, GRB-5 × JBCL-16-12, JBCL-17-01 × GRB-5 and JBCL-16-12 × GJB-2 in normal fertilizer (E1) and JBCL-16-12 × GJB-2, SB × GRB-5, JBCL-16-12 × GRB-5, GJB-3 × GRB-5 and JBCL-17-01 × GJB-3 in organic environment (E2) found superior over standard check. These hybrids also superior for fruit yield component traits and can exploit as a hybrid variety at commercial level in normal and organic environment and also further utilized in breeding programme. It conclude from above study the separate breeding programme as well as breeding material required for successful variety development for normal and organic environments.

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Chander Kanta Kumawat, G.U. Kulkarni, R.S. Tomar, B.A. Monapara, A.G. Pansuriya and L.K. Sharma (2022). Per Se Performance of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) Hybrids for Fruit Yield and its component Traits under Normal and Organic Environments. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(4): 441-448.