Vol. 10, Issue 9 (2021)

Author(s):
Ankur Kumar Pal, Gulab Chand Yadav, Lav Kumar, Rishabh Tiwari and Hari Shankar Verma

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate sixty brinjal genotypes at Main Experiment Station, Department of Vegetable Science, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology Kumarganj Ayodhya (U.P.), India during August-2019 to March -2020. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. The observations were recorded on ten quantitative and three qualitative traits. High magnitude of positive direct effect on total fruit yield was exerted by marketable fruit yield per plant (0.973) followed by number of primary branches (0.0694), average fruit (0.0632) weight, days to first fruit harvest (0.0533), and number of fruit per plant (0.0495). The negative direct effect on total fruit yield was showed by days to 50% flowering (-0.055) and plant height (-0.0371). Likewise substantial positive indirect effect was also exerted by marketable fruit yield per plant via average fruit weight (0.0504), days to first fruit harvest (0.0088), number of fruit per plant (0.0038), fruit circumference (0.0033), and fruit length (0.002). While substantial negative indirect effect via number of primary branches (-0.03), days to 50% flowering (-0.013) and plant height (-0.008) were exerted by marketable fruit yield per plant towards total fruit yield per plant.