Genetic Study of Segregating Generations in Okra

Okra is an important vegetable and annual herbaceous crop. It is grown in subtropical and tropical parts of the world for its immature green fruits and fresh leaves. It is generally self-pollinated in nature but it is being an often-cross pollinated crop with an extent of 4-10 percent out crossing. It is amphidiploid in nature with chromosome number 2n=130 and is belonging to the family Malvaceae. Abelmoschus esculentus is the only species which is known to be cultivated extensively as commercial vegetable among 34 species of Abelmoschus. For improving the fruit yield in okra, the traits which are exhibiting moderate to high GCV, PCV, high heritability accompanied with high genetic advance and the traits having direct and positive association with fruit yield and yield contributing characters are selected, which indicates the importance of these traits in improvement of fruit yield in okra.