EVALUATION OF IVY GOURD (Coccinia grandis L. Voigt) GENOTYPES IN N.E. REGION OF INDIA

J. SAIKIA¹*, D.B. PHOOKAN^2
1Department of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, 785013, Assam, India
²Department of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, 785013, Assam, India
* Corresponding Author : jsbaruah5@gmail.com

Received : 24-03-2018     Accepted : 28-03-2018     Published : 30-03-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 6       Pages : 5642 - 5644
Int J Agr Sci 10.6 (2018):5642-5644

Keywords : Ivy gourd, genotypes, high yielding, promising
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, 785013, Assam
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

An evaluation trial was conducted in ivy gourd [Coccinia grandis L. Voigt.] genotypes collected from different parts of Assam and other North Eastern States (Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Nagaland) during the summer seasons of 2013 and 2014. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications at the Experimental Farm, Department of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat. Morphological characterization of 22 genotypes revealed significant variation among the genotypes. The mean performance of genotypes for quantitative traits revealed that the genotype IG-23 recorded maximum for fruit characters viz., fruit length (8.50 cm), fruit weight (33.62 g) and fruit yield per plant (8.66 kg). Whereas the genotype IG-22 exhibited the highest number of primary branches (7.35), fruit width (3.03 cm) and number of fruits per plant (391.83). Promising genotypes were IG-10, IG-18, IG-22 and IG-23.

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