National Botanic Gardens, Lucknow
*Present address: Department of Plant Breeding, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Distt. Nainital, U. P.
Genotypic, phenotypic, environmental correlations between plant height, plant spread, number of branches, fruit number per plant and yield have been studied in egg-plant (Solarium melongena L.). Plant height did not show any association with plant spread and number of branches but was negatively correlated with fruit number and yield at phenotypic and genotypic levels. In majority of cases, environment lessened the genotypic correlation at phenotypic level. There was significant positive association between plant spread and number of banches, and between fruit number and yield. The apparent correlation between other pairs of characters was found to be because of one or more character(s) operating simultaneously. None of the environmental correlations was found to be significant.
