A study was conducted on brinjal to identify superior parental combinations and to estimate the magnitude of heterosis for yield and its component traits. Higher heterosis for fruit yield per plant over commercial check was exhibited by the cross JBL-08-08 x NSR-1( %) followed by AB-09-1 x NBB-1 ( %), GBL – 1 x NSR -1 ( %) and GBL – 1 x NBB – 1 (). Indirect selection for traits such as plant height, number of fruits per plant, average fruit weight fruit length, fruit diameter and number of branches per plant could be done in order to achieve higher yield through heterosis breeding. |
