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Breeding Round Fruited Brinjal for Export from Eastern India

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Brinjal has immense potential for the development of desirable recombinants for export trade through heterosis breeding. Therefore, half-diallel mating design involving six optimally diverse parents was used to determine heterosis, dominance reaction, combining ability, and gene action for eleven quantitative traits in brinjal. The predictability ratio revealed overwhelming response of non-additive gene action for conditioning of all the studied traits, suggesting that heterosis breeding could be used for their improvement. The maximum extent of significant heterobeltiosis in desired directions was recorded for total sugar content of fruits (105.10 %) followed by marketable fruit yield per plant (91.77 %), number of marketable fruits per plant (85.86 %), and fruit borer infestation (−77.54 %). The study identified three outstanding brinjal hybrids (Gujrat Brinjal Round × BCB-10, Gujrat Brinjal Round × 10 BRR Var-2, and BCB-10 × 10 BRR Var-2) having all the desirable traits for export. The hybrids also exhibited various degrees of dominance effects in the inheritance of marketable fruit yield and other desirable traits.

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Authors wish to acknowledge Dr. B. Singh, Director, IIVR, Varanasi, India, for providing necessary financial help to conduct this study.

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  1. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, 741252, India

    Varun Durwas Shende & Subhra Mukherjee

  2. Department of Vegetable Crops, Faculty of Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, 741252, India

    Arup Chattopadhyay & Yogendra Yadav

  3. ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, U.P., India

    Tania Seth

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Shende, V.D., Chattopadhyay, A., Yadav, Y. et al. Breeding Round Fruited Brinjal for Export from Eastern India. Agric Res 5, 219–229 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40003-016-0225-7

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