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Growth and Yield Performance of Four Pumpkin (cucurbita Moschata) Lines

AFM Jamal Uddin
Department of horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.

H. Mehraj
Department of horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.

T. Taufique
Department of horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.

M.Z.K Roni
Department of horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.

M.A.A. Faruq
International University of Business Agriculture technology, Dhaka-1230, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

An experiment was conducted at Horticultural farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh during period from November 2013 to March 2014 to evaluate the performance of four pumpkin lines (L₁ to L₄). From the result of the current study maximum number of branches/plant (3.7), vine length (4.0 m), leaf area (946.6 cm²), single fruit weight (3.5 kg) and yield (26.5 kg/plant) was found from L₂ but maximum number of fruit/plant was found from L₄ (10.0). Early flowering (56.3 days) and maturity (93.7 days) was found from L₂ while minimum sex ratio (male flower : female flower) from L₄ (0.33).

Keywords: Pumpkin lines, Growth, Yield.

Location: Horticultural farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Start Date: 00-11-2013

End Date: 00-03-2014

Program Area: Variety and Species

Commodity: Pumpkin

Objectives:

To evaluate the performance of pumpkin lines.

Methodology:

An experiment was conducted at Horticultural farm, Sher-e-Bangla Agri cultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during period from November 2013 to March 2014 to evaluate the performance of pumpkin lines. Four pumpkin lines were used on the experiment viz. L₁: Line 1; L₂: Line 2; L₃: Line 3 and L₄: Line 4. Seeds were sown on 50 cm × 50 cm × 45 cm sized pit. 2 m × 2 m distance was maintained. Manures and fertilizers were applied as recommended by BARI (2011). Data were collected on number of branches/plant, vine length at harvest, leaf area, chlorophyll content, sex ratio, days to flowering, days to maturity, number of fruit/plant and single fruit weight. The number of male and female flowers were visually counted and was calculated sex ratio through following formula; Sex ratio = Number of male/number of female flowers (Marie and Mohamed, 2010). Collected data were analyzed statistically using MSTAT-C computer package programme and mean were calculated. Differences between treatments were evaluated by Least Significance Difference (LSD) test at 5% level of significance.

Source of Information: ISSN: 2309-7892, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Page: 113-115, October-December, 2014 Int. J. Bus. Soc. Sci. Res. 2(2): 113-115.

Article Link (Online Journal): http://www.ijbssr.com/currentissueview/14013062

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Achievement/Findings:

Lastly it can be concluded that L₂ (Line-2) performed as the best line among the lines used on the current experiment regarding early flowering, maturity, single fruit weight and yield/plant but L₄ (Line-4) produced the maximum number of fruit/plant.

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