Table 1.
Description of Luffa accessions and the mean of the eight quantitative characters averaged over 2 years (2012 and 2013)
| S. no. | Genotype name | Character | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFHF | DFHF | Days to first fruit harvest | No. of fruits/cluster | Fruit length (cm) | Fruit weight (g) | No. of fruits/plant | Yield/plant (kg) | |||
| Uttar Pradesh population | L. hermaphrodita genotypes | District | ||||||||
| 1 | VRS-1 | Kushinagar | 6.40 | 41.13 | 45.07 | 5.93 | 16.42 | 31.78 | 147.53 | 4.69 |
| 2 | VRS-2 | Deoria | 7.33 | 50.87 | 51.40 | 5.00 | 12.42 | 28.81 | 134.13 | 3.87 |
| 3 | VRS-3 | Basti | 8.47 | 51.07 | 56.67 | 4.07 | 10.28 | 31.99 | 122.93 | 3.92 |
| 5 | VRS-6 | Varanasi | 7.27 | 48.47 | 54.73 | 4.40 | 11.65 | 26.82 | 138.27 | 3.71 |
| 6 | VRS-7 | Deoria | 6.47 | 43.00 | 48.33 | 5.27 | 15.60 | 33.64 | 129.80 | 4.36 |
| 7 | VRS-12 | Kushinagar | 7.27 | 47.93 | 53.13 | 3.93 | 13.35 | 29.92 | 126.13 | 3.77 |
| 8 | VRS-11 | Gorakhpur | 7.20 | 44.33 | 50.60 | 5.20 | 14.69 | 38.64 | 122.94 | 4.67 |
| 9 | VRS-14 | Deoria | 7.47 | 48.73 | 53.27 | 4.40 | 14.28 | 24.53 | 141.53 | 3.47 |
| 11 | VRS-21 | Basti | 6.47 | 46.60 | 51.40 | 4.27 | 11.50 | 28.48 | 142.67 | 4.06 |
| 12 | VRS-24 | Deoria | 7.53 | 50.00 | 54.13 | 4.40 | 3.90 | 18.95 | 145.20 | 2.75 |
| 13 | VRS-23 | Kushinagar | 8.67 | 51.13 | 56.87 | 4.53 | 13.81 | 25.49 | 141.27 | 3.60 |
| 14 | VRS-26 | Varanasi | 6.47 | 48.87 | 52.13 | 4.20 | 4.88 | 18.42 | 128.67 | 2.37 |
| 15 | VRS-25 | Kushinagar | 8.20 | 51.07 | 55.20 | 4.13 | 4.84 | 19.29 | 143.53 | 2.77 |
| 17 | VRS-29 | Deoria | 6.47 | 46.53 | 51.40 | 4.33 | 12.24 | 27.30 | 138.93 | 3.79 |
| 18 | VRS-32 | Kushinagar | 8.27 | 45.93 | 50.47 | 4.47 | 13.60 | 29.53 | 139.87 | 4.12 |
| 20 | VRS-35 | Kushinagar | 7.47 | 49.20 | 53.60 | 4.87 | 13.47 | 29.12 | 139.33 | 4.06 |
| 26 | VRS-22 | Kushinagar | 6.90 | 46.33 | 51.27 | 4.60 | 11.22 | 23.92 | 140.80 | 3.37 |
| 27 | VRS-9 | Varanasi | 7.40 | 50.33 | 55.87 | 4.00 | 12.66 | 27.87 | 136.87 | 3.81 |
| 29 | VRS-30 | Balia | 6.53 | 46.07 | 51.60 | 4.60 | 12.47 | 28.69 | 143.80 | 4.12 |
| 30 | VRS-34 | Varanasi | 8.60 | 51.07 | 56.13 | 4.53 | 11.80 | 27.35 | 143.20 | 3.92 |
| 24 | VRS-19 | Gorakhpur | 7.10 | 48.13 | 53.40 | 4.20 | 12.27 | 25.86 | 145.27 | 3.76 |
| Bihar population | L. hermaphrodita genotypes | |||||||||
| 4 | VRS-5 | Gopalganj | 8.20 | 52.13 | 57.27 | 4.13 | 14.48 | 31.18 | 133.33 | 4.16 |
| 10 | VRS-16 | West Champaran | 9.33 | 48.60 | 53.47 | 5.07 | 12.27 | 23.68 | 138.27 | 3.27 |
| 16 | VRS-27 | West Champaran | 7.33 | 47.27 | 51.67 | 4.00 | 4.81 | 20.15 | 146.93 | 2.96 |
| 19 | VRS-33 | Gopalganj | 9.40 | 50.13 | 55.60 | 3.87 | 12.72 | 28.59 | 142.27 | 4.07 |
| 28 | VRS-8 | Gopalganj | 7.20 | 47.07 | 52.47 | 4.07 | 11.73 | 26.13 | 140.13 | 3.66 |
| 31 | VRS-13 | West Champaran | 6.40 | 49.87 | 53.93 | 4.20 | 12.89 | 25.33 | 136.67 | 3.46 |
| Other sp. | L. acutangula genotypes | |||||||||
| 21 | Swarna Manjari | HARP (Jharkhand) | 14.00 | 52.00 | 65.00 | 1.00 | 24.00 | 175.00 | 20.00 | 2.50 |
| 22 | Pusa Nasdar | IARI (New Delhi) | 15.00 | 44.00 | 50.00 | 1.00 | 25.00 | 114.00 | 24.00 | 2.63 |
| Other sp. | L. aegyptiaca genotypes | |||||||||
| 23 | PusaChickni | IARI (New Delhi) | 17.00 | 38.00 | 43.00 | 1.00 | 19.00 | 108.00 | 28.00 | 3.14 |
| 25 | Kalyanpur Hari Chikni | Kanpur | 16.00 | 45.00 | 55.00 | 1.00 | 24.00 | 110.00 | 25.00 | 2.21 |
| Mean | 8.51 | 47.77 | 53.03 | 4.02 | 13.17 | 39.95 | 123.46 | 3.58 | ||
| Standard error | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.70 | 0.23 | 0.90 | 6.42 | 7.07 | 0.12 | ||
DFHF days to 1st hermaphrodite/female flower, NFHF node at which 1st hermaphrodite/female flower appeared