Performance of advanced breeding lines of green-long brinjal for resistance to bacterial wilt disease resistance, yield and quality attributes

KP    Sahana; Jyothi Kattegoudar; HB  Lingaiah; CG  Sangeetha; SJ  Prashanth; K  Padmanabha; Jayashree  Ugalat

doi:10.61180/vegsci.2019.v46.i1-2.29

KP Sahana Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065.
Jyothi Kattegoudar Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065.
HB Lingaiah Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065.
CG Sangeetha Department of Plant Pathology, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065
SJ Prashanth Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065.
K Padmanabha Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065.
Jayashree Ugalat Department of Biotechnology and Crop Improvement, College of Horticulture, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Bengaluru– 560065.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.61180/vegsci.2019.v46.i1-2.29

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Abstract

Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) is well known as eggplant or aubergine belongs to the family Solanaceae and is one of the major indigenous vegetable crops grown in India. The name eggplant is derived from the shape of the fruit of mostof the varieties, which are white in colour and similar to the shape of chicken eggs. Eggplant is a perennial, warm weather crop however grown commercially as an annual crop. Owing to its highest production potential and availability of the produce to consumers, it is also termed as poor man’s vegetable. It is grown extensively in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Japan and Philippines. Major brinjal producing states are Orissa, Bihar, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh (Prasad et al. 2015). It is an important crop grown in India with a production of 12.40 million tonnes in an area of 0.67 million ha with average productivity of about 18.50 t/ha. India is regarded as primary centre of origin of brinjal (Vavilov 1931).