Inheritance of Fruit Yield and its Components in Bottle Gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standl.] Bawkar S O*, Bhalekar M N, Damse D N All India Coordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops, Department of Horticulture, MPKV, Rahuri, (MS), India *email: suhashort2014@gmail.com
Online published on 2 January, 2017. Abstract Six generation (P1, P2, F1, F2, BC1 and BC2) means of three crosses obtained by crossing five inbred of bottle gourd were used to study the inheritance of fruit yield per vine and its component characters. Most of the characters studied showed non-allelic gene interaction indicating the presence of epistasis in determining their inheritance. The fruit characters viz., fruit length, fruit diameter, number of fruits per vine, fruit weight, sex ratio and fruit yield per vine predominantly governed by dominance (h) and dominance x dominance (l) interaction effects which can be improved through heterosis breeding. However, additive x additive component was also predominant infew cases where it is possible to isolate transgresses sergeants in advance generations in such cases for fixing that particular character. Top Keywords Fruit yield, Bottle gourd. Top |