A study on direct and indirect effects of 12 different quantitative characters of brinjal through path analysis study on yield and its component traits had revealed that days to first flowering had the maximum positive direct effect followed by plant height, number of fruits per plant, fruit weight and node at which first flowering appear, while rest of the characters like days to 50% flowering, number of branches per plant, days to edible maturity, days to first fruiting, fruit girth and fruit length exhibited negative direct effect. | Path co-efficient analysis for yield and yield attributing traits in Brinjal Solanum melongena L.
