Author(s): M. K. PANDIT, H. THAPA, S. AKHTAR AND P. HAZRA

Abstract: The present study was carried out involving twelve genotypes of brinjal to evaluate their petfonnance and to find out cultivars suitable for summer-rainy and autumn-winter seasons of southern Bengal. Observations on eleven growth and reproductive characters including yield I plant were recorded. In general, all the genotypes petfonned better in the autumn-winter season. During summer, day temperature goes above 35 °C which hampers fruit-setting. In high temperature and high moisture conditions fruit development was lower, which might have happened due to excessive vegetative growth and subsequent retarded partitioning of photosynthates to the economic sink Higher ratio of long/ medium: shortlpseudoshort style flowers and fruit number per plant, along with better fruit weight were found to be the premium traits for better yield. BCB-23, 38 and 57 yielded better in the autumn-winter season while BCB-43 was found to be the best yielder in summer-rainy season.

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