Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

The present investigation was carried out at experimental field, Division of Vegetable Science during Kharif 2020. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. The experimental material involved forty-nine genotypes of chilli collected from different states of India representing different agro-ecological regions and were evaluated for several quantitative and qualitative traits. The genotypes observed significant differences for all the characters. Analysis of variances revealed significant differences for all the characters observed. The highest phenotypic and genotypic coefficients of variation were observed for Capsaicin followed by number of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant and fruit diameter. In general, PCV was marginally higher than the corresponding GCV indicating the less influence of environment in the expression of traits under study. High heritability, coupled with high genetic advance as percentage of mean was observed for almost all traits indicating that most of the traits studied were mainly controlled by additive gene effect and thus selection may be effective. Correlation coefficients revealed that the fruit yield per hectare exhibited significant positive association with fruit length, number of fruits per plant, average fruit weight and fruit yield per plant.