Vol. 11, Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Senjem Semba and Chandra Deo

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 chilli during 2017-2018 and 2019-2020. The result showed that high PCV and GCV were recorded for plant height, leaf length, leaf width, fruit length, fruit width, pedicel length, fruit weight, no. of fruit per plant, no. of seed per fruit, capsaicin content, reducing sugar, chlorophyll content and fruit yield per plant. Whereas, high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean were showed by plant height, no. of primary branches, leaf length, leaf width, fruit length, fruit width, pedicel length of fruit, fruit weight, no. of fruit per plant, dry weight per fruit, dry weight of 100 fruits, ascorbic acid content, no. of seed per fruit, capsaicin content, green fruit TSS, total sugar, reducing sugar, non-reducing sugar, chlorophyll content and fruit yield per plant which indicates predominance of additive gene action. High GCV, PCV and high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean was recorded for plant height, leaf length, leaf width, fruit length, fruit width, pedicel length of fruit, fruit weight, no. of fruit per plant, no. of seed per fruit, capsaicin content, reducing sugar, chlorophyll content and fruit yield per plant. The selection on the basis of such characters with high GCV, PCV and high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean would be more effective for improvement of this crop.