Variability and Heritability Estimates in the Germplasm Collection of Egg Plant (Solanum melongena L.)

Information based on seventy-five genotypes of eggplant has revealed that the highest heritability was observed for average fruit weight, number of fruits per plant, plant spread, plant height, days to 50% flowering and days to first fruit set. Further characters like average fruit weight, number of fruits per plant and fruit yield per plant had high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean which suggested that these traits under the control of additive gene action and would be improved through simple selection method.