The experiment was conducted with 120 treatments (28 F1s, 28F2s, 28B1s and 28B2s populations) developed through diallel technique excluding reciprocals along with 8 parents viz., AB-2, AB-1, KS-312, BO-2, P-7, VRO-3, VRO-5 and PK in a randomized block design with three replications at the Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kalyanpur, Kanpur during Kharif 2006. The observations was recorded on 20 randomly selected plants for 10 quantitative traits namely, days to flowering, height of plant (cm), number of branches per plant, number of first fruiting node, number of nodes per plant, length of fruit (cm), width of fruit (cm), number of fruits per plant and yield per plant (g). The phenotypic and genotypic correlation coefficients were workout to measure the association among the quantitative traits. Correlation coefficient for fruit yield per plant had positive and significant association with number of nodes per plant, length of fruit and number of fruits per plant at both genotypic and phenotypic level in all the generations.

The field experiment was carried out to study the performance evaluation of All India Co-Ordinated Vegetable Improvement Project (AICVIP) varietal trial (AVT-II) on growth, yield and quality of Tomato Indeterminate entries from 2014 to 2015 at the Department of Vegetable Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. The seeds of the tomato Indeterminate (AVT-II) Six entries were chosen for this study. Among the Six entries tested (AVT-II), the highest fruit yield (345.0 q/ha) was recorded in 2012/ TOINDVAR-4 followed by ARKA VIKAS (C) (335.0 q/ha), whereas, the lowest fruit yield (291.0 q/ha) was recorded in 2012/ TOINDVAR-1

Heterosis and inbreeding depression for yield and yield components were evaluated in 28 crosses of Sesame derived from 8x8 diallel. Heterosis was worked out over mid and better parent. Two cross combination TKG -22 X RT -54 and JTS-8X TKG 306 showing highly significant positive heterosis coupled with heterobeltiosis and non significant inbreeding depression in F2 can be exploited for developing superior verities. The best heterotic combination for seed yield was TKG-22 X RT-54 giving 183.72%, heterosis, heterobeltiosis 136.52% with 15.01gm F1 mean. The crosses RT-54 X JLT-7 and RT-54 XN-32 which gave significant negative heterosis and hetrobeltiosis along with non significant inbreeding depression in F2 could be used for obtaining early maturing genotype.

The experiment was conducted with 120 treatments (28 F1s, 28F2s, 28B1s and 28B2s populations) developed through diallel technique excluding reciprocals along with 8 parents viz., AB-2, AB-1, KS-312, BO-2, P-7, VRO-3, VRO-5 and PK in a randomized block design with three replications at the Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kalyanpur, Kanpur during Kharif 2006. The observations was recorded on 20 randomly selected plants for 10 quantitative traits viz; days to flowering, height of plant (cm), number of branches per plant, number of first fruiting node, number of nodes per plant, length of internode(cm), length of fruit (cm), width of fruit (cm), number of fruits per plant and yield per plant (g). Heritability estimate in narrow sense was high for number of branches per plant and moderate for other characters were found in both the generations. The studies based on genetic advance showed that an advancement of 8.9 g in fruit yield per plant was observed from single cycle of selection at K = 2.06. The probable genetic gain was high for number of branches per plant, length of inter node and number of first fruiting node.

This study was conducted on 45 advance breeding lines of desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to determine heritability, variability and association analysis for yield and its related traits. Genotypic and phenotypic coefficient of variation found high for seed yield per plant, number of effective pods per plant, number of effective pods per plant, biological yield, number of primary branches and number of secondary branches. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean was registered for seed yield per plant followed by biological yield, number of effective pods per plant and total number of pods per plant. The trait association analysis revealed seed yield per plant showed positive and significant correlation with biological yield, number of effective pods per plant, total number of pods per plant and days to maturity, while significant negative correlation with days to flower initiation days to 50% flowering and pod initiation. Number of effective pods per plant, total number of pods per plant, biological yield and harvest index exhibited high direct positive effect on seed yield per plant. Research findings suggested genotypes having high biological yield with more secondary branches, total number of pods per plant and number of effective pods per plant should be considered selection criteria for improving seed yield in chickpea.

Rice is the staple food of more than half the world’s population, and is being cultivated in Asia since ancient time generation after generation. Good quality seeds are the seeds of green revolution, it has been assertively and emphatically shown that 15-20% increased yield could be achieved by the use of good quality seeds alone. The production and supply of good quality seed is one of the most important requirements to achieve higher production and productivity in any crop. The seed quality is governed by various factors viz. genetic, edaphic, environmental, biotic, etc. The production of good quality seed depends on complex condition evoking the most favorable interactions between the genetic makeup of the seed and the environment, under which it is produced, harvested, processed and stored. Seeds undergo deterioration at various levels during storage resulting in decline in vigour and viability. With the above considerations, the present investigation has been undertaken to observe the potentials of ten rice genotypes and observed its seed quality after harvesting in 2015-2016 at Seed Testing Laboratory, Department of Seed Science and Technology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India. Just after harvesting V2 (Gobindabhog) & V9 (IR-36) showed highest germination percentage (97.66) and V9 (IR-36) showed highest vigour index (3204.13). But most of the varieties germination and vigour was nearer to V2 & V9.