Vol. 19 No. 1
Performance study of some cooking type watermelon genotypes
Author(s): S. K. SAHU, J. MANDAL, S. MOHANTA AND A. K. SINGH
Abstract: Cooking type watermelon is an underutilized vegetable crop of Red and Lateritic Zone of West Bengal which is locally known as ‘Khero’. Thirteen landraces of cooking type watermelon were assessed for twelve quantitative traits during summer 2021 at Horticultural Farm of Sriniketan. The study revealed the presence of significant variation in different growth, flowering, yield and quality traits among the genotypes. Short vine length was recorded in genotype VC-9-2-1 and VC-22. The early flowering was observed in genotype VC-5-3. However, VC-13-3 took minimum days for first fruit harvest. Maximum fruit length as well as fruit circumference was produced by genotype VC-5-2. Maximum number of fruits plant-1 and total fruit yield plant-1 were observed in VC-12-2. These genotypes are suggested to use in future breeding programmer for earliness, higher yield and quality improvement.
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