Vol. 11, Issue 10 (2022)

The present investigation was designed in order to estimate heterosis for fruit yield and its component traits in brinjal. The experimental material comprised of 7 parents, their resultant 21 hybrids produced following half diallel mating design and a check “GAOB-2” of brinjal, which were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. The experiment was conducted at College Farm, N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari during rabi 2021. The standard heterosis for all the characters showed that none of the hybrids displayed consistent standard heterosis for all the characters under study. For fruit yield per plant, the range of heterosis varied from -25.17 per cent to 18.23 per cent. Three crosses viz., GNRB-1 × CH-215, CH-215 × NBL-5 and GNRB-1 × NBL-5 showed positive standard heterosis for fruit yield per plant (kg). Indirect selection for traits like fruit weight, fruit diameter and number of fruits per plant could be done to obtain higher fruit yield through heterosis. The current investigation reveals good scope for commercial exploitation of heterosis in brinjal.