Department of Vegetable Crops, Faculty of Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur 741 252 (West Bengal).
Sixty four famale clones of pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.) collected from parts of Bihar and West Bengal showed wide range of variation in vine length, leaf length/breadth, fruit length, fruit girth, fruit weight, pericarp thickness, number of fruits/plant and fruit yield per plant. Some promising clones included IC66-1, IC63-1, IC50-4, IC64-2, IC97-2 and IC34-4.
Pointed gourd, Trichosanthes dioica, dioecious, female clone, evaluation
