SEED RECOVERY, SEED PRODUCTION, SEED PREDICTION AND VARIABILITY STUDIES IN CHILLI

Abstract

Seed recovery/fruit (SR) and several other related characters were investigated in 73 different genotypes of chilli. Each character exhibited wide variability. SR differed from cultivar to cultivar, Genotypes namely, V.Kolar local, Habbegudi local and Anekal local gave high SR and they were recommended as donor parents for breeding cultivars with increased SR. They registered SR from 54.1% to 76.8%. SR showed positive correlation with seed weight/fruit, number of seeds/fruit, number of fruits/plant, fruit yield/plant, root dry weight/plant and stem diameter and negative correlation with fruit length, fruit size, fruit length:fruit diameter ratio, pericarp weight, pedicel weight and ascorbic acid content and these results provided an efficient tool for selection purposes. The characters seed weight/plant, pericarp weight, number of fruits/plant, pedicel weight and root dry weightplant explained the variation in SR to an extent of 96.34% indicating accurate prediction of SR in the cultivars could be possible.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A00855

Pages

139 - 143

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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