Assessment of combining ability and heterosis in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria L.) for yield and attributes character through line × tester design

R Singh; B Singh; S Prakash; M Kumar; A Kumar; M Kumar; M Singh; S K Singh; S Sachan

doi:10.14719/pst.4175

Authors

R Singh College of Horticulture, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India; School of Agriculture, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun 248007, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-4747
B Singh College of Horticulture, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5422-2376
S Prakash College of Horticulture, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0779-8994
M Kumar Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Shahjahanpur, 242001, India https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6618-1216
A Kumar School of Agriculture, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun 248007, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1653-2146
M Kumar College of Horticulture, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut 250110, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4539-9732
M Singh Subject Matter Specialist, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, 241203, KVK Hardoi-II India https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1389-2081
S K Singh College of Agriculture, Department Genetics & Plant Breeding, SVPUA&T Meerut 250110, India https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1443-6098
S Sachan School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, (Punjab), India 144411 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2697-508X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.4175

Keywords:

Combining ability, heterosis, hybrid, superior, yield

Abstract

General and specific combining ability variance and their effects were studied for thirteen characters in line × tester mating design in bottle gourd. Based on overall per se performance and among the parents, Narendra Dharidar, Punjab Long, and parents Narendra Rashmi were identified as good specific combiners for a maximum of 5 to 6 attributes, including yield for other contributing traits, suggesting that these parents may be used in the hybridization program aimed at the development of superior genotypes/varieties in bottle guard. Tester Arka Bahar and Narendra Madhuri were considered to be good general combiners for 6 to 8 characters. These parents must be utilized in a suitable breeding programme visa-vis selection breeding for improvement productivity of yield and per unit area in bottle gourd. Based on overall results and per se performance, the F1 hybrids, i.e. Pusa Sandesh × Kashi Ganga, IC-321747 × Narendra Madhuri, and NDBG-132 × Narendra Madhuri emerged to be the good specific combiners for maximum traits, including yield, which may be utilized for obtaining transgressive segregants in the next generation. Out of sixty-four cross combinations, only seventeen hybrids revealed superiority over better parents for yield. The seventeen cross combinations that showed more than 24% heterobeltiosis over better parents include: IC-498541×Narendra Madhuri, IC-592210×Arka bahar, Pusa Sandesh×Narendra Madhuri, NDBG-132×Pusa Naveen, Narendra Rashmi×Kashi Ganga, IC-321412×Pusa Naveen, Narendra Rashmi×Arka bahar, Narendra Rashmi×Pusa Naveen, Narendra Dharidar×Narendra Madhuri, Pusa Sandesh×Kashi Ganga, NDBG-132×Arka bahar, NDBG-132×Narendra Madhuri, Punjab long×Narendra Madhuri, Narendra Jyothi×Narendra Madhuri, IC-592210×Arka bahar, IC-338119×Arka bahar and IC- 498541×Kashi Ganga. This suggests that there is a great possibility to produce higher yielding varieties/genotypes.

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