Vol. 11, Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Kaushelendra Pratap Singh, Bijendra Singh, Satya Prakash, RS Sengar, LK Gangwar, Vipin Kumar, Anuj Pal, Devendra Pal and Vibhu Pandey

Abstract:
Brinjal is one of the most common, popular and principal vegetable crops grown in India and other parts of the world. Heterostyled feature of its flower causes low fruit set which resulted in poor production. A field experiment was conducted with 20 different germplasm of brinjal to investigate the effect of Gibberellic acid (50ppm) in combination of nitrobenzene (150ppm) on Days taken to 50% flowering; number of flower per plant and number of flower attained the fruit. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 1 treatment and three replications for two consecutive years. The treated germplasm with combination of GA₃ and Nitrobenzene shows a significant difference when compared with control where no PGRs were used. An average of 5.4 days earliness in 50% flowering, 5.66 more number of flower and 3.61more flower attained the fruit in all the 20 germplasm during 2020-21. GA₃ and Nitrobenzene proved to be effective in all the flowering parameters of brinjal.