Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005
*Present address: Reader in Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar 751003.
Eighteen cultivars of okra were screened for heritability, genetic co-efficient of variation and genetic advance during summer 1975 at Varanasi for twelve quantitative characters. The branches per plant, pod yield per plant, seeds per pod, plant height and pod length had high heritability, genotypic co-efficient of variation and genetic advance in percentage. Whereas number of pods per plant and pod weight showed moderately high genotypic co-efficient of variation and genetic advance which were further supported by higher heritability percentage. The results indicate that there is a immense scope for the improvement of these characters in okra by selection as well as their utilization in hybridization programme.
