Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Pavithra G, Karunakaran G, Sivaramakrishna VNP, Sakthivel T, Arivalagan M and Lakshmana Reddy DC

Abstract:
The Morphological variability in 210 hybrid progenies of dragon fruit (Hylocereus sp.) from Red and White cultivars of dragon fruit. The study aimed to assess the range of variability for the different morphological characters in hybrid progenies. The characters recorded were: days taken for vegetative bud formation, number of primary branches, number of secondary branches, distance between the areoles and spines per areole. The existence of continuous and overlapping variation for all the characters indicates the quantitative nature for all the studied morphological characters. The results revealed that the F₁ clones for yield and other attributes would provide a large gene pool for the recombination to generate the promising variety of considerable value.