Vol. 11, Issue 4 (2022)

Author(s):
M Panda, A Mohanty, S Sarkar, GC Sahu, P Tripathy, S Das, SK Das and A Patnaik

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted at All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar with sixteen genotypes of ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.) in Randomized Block Design with three replications during spring and summer season,2020. The analysis of variance revealed highly significant differences among the mean sum of squares due to genotypes for different quantitative characters studied indicating the presence of variability among the genotypes. The high GCV and PCV were observed for number of fruit per plant, fruit yield per plant indicating high variability available in the germplasm for these characters for further improvement. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean was observed for fruit length, fruit weight, node to first female flower, seed per fruit, vine length, fruit weight characters viz., indicating that these characters were least influenced by the environmental effects and governed by additive genes.