Author(s):

Sushmitha A, TB Allolli, VM Ganiger, PS Ajjappalavar, Shashikanth Evoor, JB Gopali and Abdul Kareem

Abstract: The present investigation was carried out during kharif 2018-19 at Horticulture Research and Extension Centre, Haveri (Devihosur) with 29 genotypes of chilli in a randomized complete block design with two replications to estimate the genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance for 16 selected parameters. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among the genotypes for all the traits studied indicating the presence of sufficient variability in the studied material. Higher PCV is observed over GCV for all the traits studied, indicating the predominance of environment over the genetic parameters. High magnitude of PCV and GCV were observed for number of fruits per plant, dry fruit yield per plant, dry fruit yield per hectare and capsaicin content suggesting the existence of wide range of genetic variability in the germplasm for these traits and thus the scope for improvement of these characters through simple selection would be better. High heritability coupled with high GAM was observed for number of fruits per plant, dry fruit yield per plant, dry fruit yield per hectare, weight of 100 dry fruits, number of seeds per fruit and capsaicin content indicating the predominance of additive gene action making the simple selection more effective.

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