Combining ability and stability analysis in bottle gourd Lagenaria siceraria Molina Standl

Abstract

The present study was conducted at Vegetable Research Farm of the Department of Horticulture (Vegetable and Floriculture), Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur. The investigation was based on combining ability, heterosis and to estimate stable genotypes for planning of an appropriate strategy for development of high yielding bottle gourd lines and F1 (crosses). The line × tester analysis was carried out involving 7 lines viz., BRBG-23, BRBG-65, BRBG- 21-2, BRBG-42-, BGL-19, BRBG-22-1, BRBG-41-1 and 3 testers (Rajendra Chamatkar, Swarna Sneha and Narendra Rashmi). newline