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In the current experiment, 256 test treatments and four control treatments (checks) were assessed in an augmented block design for studying yield and yield-attributing traits. F3 population of chilli was assessed for yield and yield components during kharif in the year 2018-19. The analysis of variance showed a significant mean sum of squares for all characters for different sources of variation. The number of genotypes that exceeded the best check was 47 (plant height), 45 (number of primary branches), 42 (days to 50% flowering), 37 (number of fruits per plant), 34 (fruit length), 36 (fruit width), 39 (fruit weight), 33 (fruit shape index), 48 (pedicel length), 33 (yield per plant), 37 (dry yield per plant) and 32 (dry recovery %). Plant number 91 was the best genotype among the test treatments for all traits except fruit width and pedicel length. Among the checks, B-HP-143 was observed to be best for plant height, days to 50% flowering, number of fruits per plant, yield per plant, dry yield per plant, dry recovery %, whereas B-HP-144was found to be superior over all the checks for the rest of the traits.

A field research was carried out in the Department of Vegetable Science, Odisha University of Agricultural and Technology (OUAT), India, during the 2018 kharif season to investigate the impact of various   sources of nutrient management on the vegetative growth and flowering of Kharif Season Bottle Gourd. The research project was set up in a randomized block design with replicated three times of twelve treatment. According to the results, the maximum vine length (529.33cm) was noted in treatment T10 (100% RDF + FYM @ 7.5 t ha-1+ Biofertilizer), maximum number of Primary branches (8.97), internodal length (15.83),minimum no. of node bearing 1st male flower (4.67), minimum no. of node bearing 1st female flower (7.67) was recorded in treatment T12 (50% RDF + FYM @7.5 t ha-1+ Vermicompost @ 2.5 t ha-1+ Biofertilizer) whereas minimum number of days until the 1st male flower (46.33 days ),minimum days to the first female blossom (49.00days),  minimum days to 1st Fruit set (50.67days) were found significant as vegetative, flowering parameters and Sex ratio (3.10)  while the lowest response for these parameters was obtained with T1 (control).

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Field experiment was carried out at All India Coordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India in order to identify the superior F1 crosses for marketable fruit yield quality and resistance to bacterial wilt. All total 21 F1 crosses evolved from seven distinctly diverse local landraces of brinjal along with a hybrid check, Mahy Green were evaluated by adopting Randomized Block Design and replicated twice in rabi 2021-2022. Results revealed significant variations among various fruit quality attributes (TSS: 4.32 oBrix to 6.00 oBrix and ascorbic acid content of fruit: 5.10 mg100g-1 to 7.10 mg100g-1), incidence of bacterial wilt (30 DAT: 0.00% to 4.17%, 60 DAT: 0.00% to 12.50% and 90 DAT: 0.00% to 20.83%). Out of 21 crosses, nine cross showed immune reaction to bacterial wilt at 90 DAT. The marketable fruit yield plant-1 varied significantly from 1.00 kg to 1.99 kg. The F1 cross viz. BBSR-08-2 × Selection from BBSR-145-1(1.99 kg) recorded significantly highest fruit yield plant-1 followed by BBSR-08-2 × BBSR-10-25(1.87 kg) and BBSR-08-2 × BBSR-10-26 (1.81 kg). Thus, it may be concluded that, F1 crosses obtained from local landraces of brinjal viz., BBSR-08-2 × Selection from BBSR-145-1, BBSR-08-2 × BBSR-10-25 and BBSR-08-2 × BBSR-10-26 may be recommended for higher marketable fruit yield, fruit quality and over all resistance to bacterial wilt for higher profit. These local landraces may also be used for future brinjal improvement programme towards development varieties with higher fruit yield quality and resistance to bacterial wilt.

Dolichos bean is an indigenous legume grown as vegetable (Lablab purpureus var. typicus) and pulse (Lablab purpureus var. lignosus) throughout India. A wide range of variation exists for the morphological and reproductive characters amongst the land races of Indian Bean grown all over the country. Therefore it is necessary to select variety having desired pod quality with high yield potential. Despite of these good attributing characters it is still regarded as underexploited vegetable because of low productivity, long duration and photosensitivity, flowering irregularity, growth habit and preference of consumers with respect to pod shape, pod size, pod colour, pod aroma. Keeping this in view the present investigation was conducted at All India Co-ordinated  Research Project on Vegetable Crops, Odisha University Of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar during Rabi, 2020-21 for evaluating the yield and yield attributing characters, for estimating the variability, heritability, genetic advance and the association between yield and yield attributing characters for an effective selection to estimate the genetic variability in Dolichus bean [Lablab purpureus (L.) sweet var. typicus] genotypes for further crop improvement study. The genotypic variance ranged from 0.02 for pod weight per plant to 2435 for average leaf area. The phenotypic variance ranged from 0.023 for pod weight per plant to 2879.8 for average leaf area. Phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) was higher than genotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) for all the 14 characters taken. This happened because PCV estimates includes variations due to environment (E) and genotype and environment (GE) interaction. PCV was highest (60.31) for pod yield per plant followed by average leaf area (35.09) indicating the presence of wide range of genetic variability in the germplasm for these traits. Higher value of GCV was found for characters like pod yield per plant (59.80) followed by average leaf area (32.26) and number of pods per plant (31.94). Highest estimates of heritability in broad sense was observed in Pod weight per plant (98.30) followed by number of pods per plant (96.17), average leaf area (84.55), number of pods per inflorescence (83.91), pod length (82.22), plant height (78.82), pod yield per hectare (78.66) indicating that these characters are less influenced by environment.

The experiment was conducted at Central Horticultural Experiment Station, ICAR- IIHR, Aiginia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during kharif seasons of 2018 in collaboration with Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, to study the seed germination, days taken to reach grafting stage and grafting success (percentage) of rootstock and scion seeds used for grafting. The cultivated and wild species of brinjal and tomato were used as rootstocks with tomato Arka Rakshak F1 hybrid as scion. The experiment was conducted with 13 root stocks following statistical design CRD with three replications in pro trays to find out better root stock for grafting. A significant difference was recorded for the rootstock and scion parameters. Utkal Anushree had taken minimum number of days (6.67 days) for germination and the wild Solanum torvum had taken maximum number of days (16.67 days) to germinate, On the other hand, Arka Rakshak took least number of days (34.33 days) to reach grafting stage while the wild Solanum torvum reached to grafting stage within 56 days. The grafting success percentage ranged from 74.67 to 96 percent. Maximum grafting success (%) was recorded in Solanum torvum whereas minimum grafting success (%) was observed in S. sisymbriifolium wild solanum spp. root stock.