COMBINING ABILITY FOR YIELD AND ITS CONTRIBUTING CHARACTERS IN OKRA [Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench]

S. KUMAR¹, M.P. SINGH², S.K. VISHWAKARMA³, P. SINGH⁴, SANJEEV KUMAR⁵, P. SHRIVASTAVA⁶, S.S. YADAV⁷, M.K. YADAV⁸*
¹Department of Horticulture, Janta College, Bakewar, Etawah, 206124, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
²Department of Agronomy, Janta College, Bakewar, Etawah, 206124, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
³Department of Horticulture, Janta College, Bakewar, Etawah, 206124, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁴Department of Chemistry, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁵Department of Horticulture, Janta Mahavidyalaya, Ajitmal, Auraiya, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁶Department of Plant Pathology, S.S.M.M. Takha, Etawah, 206124, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁷Department of English, Pt. D. D. U. Govt. Girls P.G. College, Rajajipuram, Lucknow, 226017, Lucknow University, Lucknow, 226007, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁸Department of Plant Pathology, Janta College, Bakewar, Etawah, 206124, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
* Corresponding Author : manojbhu87@gmail.com

Received : 04-10-2021     Accepted : 27-10-2021     Published : 30-10-2021
Volume : 13     Issue : 10       Pages : 10932 - 10934
Int J Agr Sci 13.10 (2021):10932-10934

Keywords : Okra, Contributing characters, gca and sca
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Plant Pathology, Janta College, Bakewar, Etawah, 206124, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, 208024, Uttar Pradesh, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The experiment was conducted at the Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kalyanpur, Kanpur during kharif 2006. The observations were recorded for 10 quantitative traits namely days to flowering, height of plant (cm), number of branches per plant, number of first fruiting node, number of nodes per plant, length of internode (cm), length of fruit (cm), width of fruit (cm), number of fruits per plant, and yield per plant (g). The study was revealed that, the significant general combining ability effects were shown by parents AB-1, AB-2 and PK. On the basis of specific combining ability effects, the cross-combination AB-1xVRO-5 and AB-2xPK were found promising for most of the yield traits in both the generations

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