Trends in Biosciences

Oriental pickling melon is one of the melon group vegetable of the Cucurbitaceae. Present field experiment was carried out at Department of Horticulture, GKVK, UAS, Bangalore during the year 2010–2011 to evaluate 25 Oriental pickling melon F1 hybrids for yield and quality. The F1 hybrid CMC GKVK 1X CMC GKVK 2 have shown better performance for characters such as fruit length and fruit diameter, while the F1 hybrid CMC GKVK 2 X CMC GKVK 4 performed well for other characters such as per cent fruit set, number of fruits and total fruit yield per vine. However, the fruit flesh thickness and total soluble solids where high with the F1 hybrid CMC GKVK 1 X CMC GKVK 12. Finally it can be inferred that among the F1 hybrids CMC GKVK 2 X CMC GKVK 4, CMC GKVK 1X CMC GKVK 2, CMC GKVK 5 X CMC GKVK 8 and CMC GKVK 9 X CMC GKVK 2 were high yielding. For the purpose of processing F1 hybrids CMC GKVK 1 X CMC GKVK 12,CMC GKVK 7 X CMC GKVK 9, CMC GKVK1 X CMC GKVK 2 and CMC GKVK 2 X CMC GKVK 4 were suitable.