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Association studies on Yield and Yield Components in Snap Melon (Cucumis Melo. Var. Momordica)

Volume : 111
Issue: March(1-3)
Pages: 59 - 68
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Published: March 25, 2024
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Abstract


An experiment was carried out at Horticultural College and ResearchInstitute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore to study thecorrelation analysis in snap melon. The study revealed that the traitsfruit girth, fruit weight, number of primary branches, flesh thickness,number of female flowers per plant, fruit length, fruit girth, fruit weight,days to first harvest, number of fruits per plant, vine length, TSS, protein,carbohydrate, calcium, iron showed high positive significant correlationwith fruit yield per plant. The traits such as days to first male flowerappearance, node at which first female flower appearance and daysto first harvest registered negative significant association with yield.

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59 - 68
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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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Snap melon; Correlation analysis; Traits
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