Vol. 8, Issue 1 (2019)

Author(s):
Vaibhav Singh, Anand Kumar Singh, Ashutosh Kumar, Dhirendra Kumar Singh and Deepak Kumar Jaiswal

Abstract:
Crop improvement totally depends upon the various factors one of them is genetic estimation includes the examination of various parameters for understanding yield and yield attributing traits responsible for crop development. The present experiment was carried out Rabi season of 2012-13 at Vegetable Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. (India) on 21 diverse genotypes in order to asses the quantitative differences among genotypes for yield and yield attributing trait. Observations for pod yield per plant showed that HOR-137 (62.5g) ranked first. PDR-14 (62.35 g) and EC-592938 (62.25 g) represented as good pod yield per plant also genotype RLFB-58 (39.57 g) showed lowest pod yield per plant. Pod yield per hectare is the final and economical characteristics of the crop therefore it is most important for crop improvement. The pod yield per hectare ranged from 87.93 (RLFB-58) to 138.88 (HOR-137). The maximum pod yielder was HOR-137 (138.88 q/ha), whereas minimum pod yield per hectare was recorded with genotype RLFB-58 (87.93 q/ha). In the present investigation, HOR-137, PDR-14 and EC-592938 were found to be the high yielder which may be used as for the development of high yielding varieties.