National Botanikal Gardens, Lucknow
2Present address: Department of Plant Breeding, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Distt. Nainital, U. P.
1Part of Ph.D. thesis submitted to Agra University.
The nature and magnitude of genetic variances involved in the inheritance of some quantitative characters were investigated in a 6 × 6 diallel cross of brinjal. Additive components was significant for all the characters whereas dominance variance was significant only for plant height, fruit diameter and fruit volume. Dominant alleles acted towards both high as well as low mean performance for all the characters. Narrow sense heritability values indicated that rapid improvement through selection could be made in all the traits except fruit volume and yield.
