Development of parthenocarpic hybrids in cucumber and their micropropagation

Abstract

The present investigation in 28 F1 crosses along with eight parents developed through half diallel mating design and one check (RS-03602833) was carried out in randomized block design (RBD) with three replications in the saw toothed naturally ventilated polyhouse (500 m2) oriented in East-West direction at polyhouse complex of the department and lab experiments were conducted at tissue culture laboratory and post-harvest laboratory of the college. All the treatments exhibited significant variation as observed through ANOVA for RBD. For mean performance, hybrid BRPCU-2 × BRPCU-7 showed earliness in days to first female flower anthesis, node number to first female flower and days to first fruit harvest. While, hybrid BRPCU-1 × BRPCU-6, BRPCU-2 × BRPCU-7, BRPCU-1 × BRPCU-8 were the high yielders. newline