Author(s):

TP Haldavanekar, YR Parulekar, AP Pawar, PC Haldavanekar and PC Mali

Abstract: The field experiment was conducted at the Educational Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Dapoli (M.S.) during the rabi season of the year 2013-2014. Treatments comprising 28 F5 progenies of brinjal along with control were replicated twice in Randomized Block Design (RBD). Various growth parameters Viz. plant height, number of secondary branches per plant, number of leaves per plant and plant spread, all flowering characters, fruit parameters and yield and yield attributing characters were found significant during present investigation. Whereas number of primary branches varied non-significantly. Highest plant height (123.45 cm), Highest number of primary branches (5.6), highest number of secondary branches (9.7) were recorded in genotypes T­­­­­_3,. T­₁₁ as well as T₂₈ and T₂₇ respectively. Genotype T₂₈ took minimum days (36.5) for 1st flowering and genotype T₅ has taken minimum days (41 days) for 50% flowering. Highest fruit length (19.26 cm) observed in genotype T₂₆, whereas fruit girth (26.94 cm) and weight (173.74 g) was highest in genotype T₁₃. Significantly minimum days (50 days) for 1st harvest by genotypes T₅ and T₂₈. Maximum harvesting span (74.5 days) was recorded in genotype T₅. Number of harvest was recorded highest (13.5) in genotype T₁₀. Genotype T₂₈ recorded maximum number of fruits (30.6) per plant. Overall yield per plant (1.99 kg) and yield/ha (55.26 t) was highest in genotype T₅. On the basis of overall plant growth habit, yield and yield attributing characters out of 29 genotypes 19 promising genotypes were selected for further studies. These genotypes were T₄, T₅, T₆, T₈, T₉, T₁₀, T₁₂, T₁₃, T₁₅, T₁₆, T₁₇, T₁₉, T₂₁, T₂₂, T₂₄, T₂₅, T₂₆, T₂₇, and T₂₈.

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