Per se performance of some genotypes and their crosses in chill

The present investigation was conducted at Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Horticulture Research and Extension Centre, Dhakrani (Dehradun, Uttaranchal) during 2005 and 2006. Whereas, all quality analysis has conducted at R.M.P. (PG) college Gurukul (Narsan), Distt.- Haridwar (Uttaranchal). The experimental consisted of eight parental lines of Chilli viz, PC-1, LCA-333, LCA-206, KA-2, Ajeet-6, Phule Mukta, JCA-283 and LCA-357 with their 28 F₁ populations which were evaluated in a Randomized Block Design with two replications. The observations on twenty characters taken from ten randomly taken plants in each replicatyion within each treatment Analysis of variance for the experimental design revealed highly significant differences among the parents and crosses for all the characters studied except for stem diameter. Parent versus crosses were also found significant for all characters except for stem diameter and number of seeds per fruit. General mean (parents + F1s) for plant height, days to first picking, fresh fruit yield (q/ha), seed yield (q/ha) and ascorbic acid content was 76.757 cm, 74.018 days, 207.470 q/ha, 19.795 q/ha and 125.771 mg/100 g, respectively