Genetic study of earliness characters in chilli

摘要

Generation mean analysis of eight crosses of chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) viz., Utkal Ragini x KDCS-810, HC-28 x LCA-334 HC-28 x LCA-206, HC-28 x Utkal Ragini, DC-24 x KDCS-810, DC-24 x DC-16, DC-16 x HC-28 and DC-16 x LCA-334 conducted for the geneticcontrol of days taken to flowering, fruit set and fruit ripening revealed the importance of additive gene action (d) over the dominance gene action (h). Besides this, epistasis gene interactions were also present in the inheritance of these traits in chilli.