Heritability and Genetic Advance Studies on Fruit Yield and It’s Attributes Traits in Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)

Jagruti S. Mahla *

Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, BACA, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, India.

R. R. Acharya

Main Vegetable Research Station, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, India.

M. M. Pandya

Main Vegetable Research Station, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, India.

Sushil Kumar

Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, India.

B. P. Chauhan

Department of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, BACA, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, India.

Ashita Patel

Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, NMCA, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396 450, India.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.


Abstract

The present investigation was conducted at the Main Vegetable Research Station, Anand Agricultural University, Anand during the period of 2023-2024. The experimental material comprised twelve generations viz., P1, P2, F1, F2, B1, B2, B11, B12, B21, B22, B1S and B2S of four families involving eight diverse cultivars of brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) used to study the heritability and genetic advance of brinjal for yield and shoot and fruit borer incidence. The experiment was laid out in a compact family block design with three replications. Higher magnitude of heritability along with a higher value of genetic advance as per cent mean was estimated for day to first flowering in family 2, plant height in family 1 and family 4, leaf blade length in family 4, leaf blade width in family 2, fruit length in all families, fruit girth in family 3 and 4, fruit weight in all families expect to family 2, fruits per plant in family 2, fruit yield per plant in all families expect family 4 and shoot and fruit borer incidence in family 2 which suggested preponderance of additive gene effect. The higher value of heritability coupled with the higher value of genetic advance shows higher selection efficiency, permitting plant breeders to efficiently select individuals or groups of individuals. In crops like brinjal, high narrow sense heritability estimates are particularly beneficial for developing enhanced varieties through the fixation of additive gene effects.

Keywords: Brinjal, broad sense heritability, narrow sense heritability, genetic advance


How to Cite

Mahla, Jagruti S., R. R. Acharya, M. M. Pandya, Sushil Kumar, B. P. Chauhan, and Ashita Patel. 2024. “Heritability and Genetic Advance Studies on Fruit Yield and It’s Attributes Traits in Brinjal (Solanum Melongena L.)”. Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology 27 (10):564-76. https://doi.org/10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i101479.