To Study Association Among Fruit Yield And Yield Contributing Traits Of Okra (Abelmoschus Esculentus L. Moench)

Abstract

The experimental material comprising 30 genotypes including two checks were evaluated in Randomized Block Design during two crop seasons i.e., Kharif -2022 and Rabi-2022-23 at two locations i.e., Parbhani and Nanded comprising three different environments viz., E1 (Parbhani Kharif-2022), E2 (Nanded Kharif-2022) and E3 (Nanded Rabi-2022-23). Data were recorded on twelve quantitative characters viz., days to 50% flowering, days to first harvest, number of ridges per fruit, number of fruits per plant, fruit length, fruit girth, fruit weight, plant height, number of nodes per plant, internodal length and fruit yield per plant. The character association studies indicated that fruit yield per plant was strongly associated with all the character except days to 50% flowering, days to first maturity suggested the importance of improvement in characters like number of fruits per plant, number of ridges per fruit, fruit length, fruit weight, plant height, number of branches per plant and internodal length through selection is expected to results in improvement of fruit yield per plant.