Evaluation of long fruited brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) genotypes for growth and yield traits under Chhattisgarh plains

Abstract

The experiment was carried out at Horticultural Research cum Instructional Farm, under the project AICRP on vegetable crops, at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur (C.G.) during kharif 2019-2020. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with fourteen treatments (genotypes) and three replications. Based on mean performance study, the highest total fruit yield per hectare (q) was recorded in genotype 2018/BRLVAR-11 followed by 2018/BRLVAR-8. The genotype 2018/BRLVAR-11 also exhibited highest value for most of the traits viz., plant height (cm), fruit weight (cm), fruit length (cm), stalk length (cm), fruit yield per plant (kg) and marketable fruit yield (q/ha), whereas, genotype 2018/BRLVAR-8 was recorded with maximum fruit girth (cm) and maximum pericarp thickness (mm).