Vol. 11, Issue 4 (2022)

Author(s):
Senjem Semba, Chandra Deo, BN Hazarika, ND Bhutia and P Sarma

Abstract:
The present research was carried out at Vegetable Research Farm, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh with fifteen genotypes of King chilli (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) during 2017-18 and 2019-20 to estimate genetic variability, heritability and genetic gain for fruit yield and quality parameters in King chilli genotypes. High GCV and PCV were observed for ascorbic acid content, fruit yield per plant, reducing sugar, chlorophyll content, capsaicin content, number of seeds per fruit and number of primary branches showing that these characters have higher magnitude of variability and thus provide a greater scope for improvement through selection. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean (genetic gain) were also observed for ascorbic acid content, reducing sugar, number of primary branches, chlorophyll content, number of seeds per fruit, total sugar, fruit yield per plant, no. of fruit per plant, non-reducing sugar, capsaicin content, plant height, leaf width, dry weight per fruit, dry weight per 100 fruit, pedicel length of fruit, fruit length and fruit weight, indicating the influence of additive genes. The selection on the basis of characters likeascorbic acid content, fruit yield per plant, reducing sugar, chlorophyll content, capsaicin content, number of primary branches and number of seeds per fruit with high GCV, PCV and high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean (genetic gain) would be more effective and reliable for the improvement of this crop.