Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012
*Present address: Division of Vegetable Crops, I.I.H.R., Hessaraghatta, Bangalore-560 089.
**Professor and Head, College of Agriculture, Kolhapur-416 004.
The high phenotypic and genotypic co-efficient of variation exhibited by most of the characters indicates the presence of maximum amount of variability existing among the genotypes for selection. High heritability and medium genetic advance as per cent mean exhibited by F:C ratio, P.D.I., yield/plant, number of fruits/plant and fruit weight indicated that hybridization followed by selection will be effective for genetic improvement. Correlation co-efficient study revealed that improvement in muskmelon is possible by selecting genotypes for number of fruits/plant, fruit number, days to first harvest and T.S.S.
