Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
S Praneetha and V Sivakumar

Abstract:
A study was conducted in the Department of Vegetable Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore. Fifty landraces of brinjal were raised and evaluated for eighteen quantitative and qualitative characters viz., plant height, number of branches per plant, days to first flowering, days to 50 per cent flowering, days to first harvest, fruit length, fruit girth, fruit weight, number of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant, shoot borer infestation, fruit borer infestation, marketable yield per plant and five qualitative characters viz., dry matter content per fruit, protein content, ascorbic acid content and total phenols. Correlation coefficient was estimated for yield and related traits in all 50 eggplant genotypes. Correlation analysis indicated that the plant height, number of branches per plant, fruit length, fruit weight, number fruits per plant and fruit yield per plant had highly positive significant correlation on fruit yield per plant.