“…High heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean indicates operation of additive gene action which was observed in characters viz., plant height at 60 DAS, plant height at 90 DAS, stem diameter at 30 DAS, stem diameter at 90 DAS, number of leaves per plant at 60 DAS, number of leaves per plant at 90 DAS, number of branches per plant at 60 DAS, number of branches per plant at 90 DAS, number of locules per fruit, fruit length, fruit diameter, fruit weight, fruit yield plant and fruit yield per hectare. These results are in agreement with the findings of Alam et al [14], Ashraf et al [10], Melaku et al [9], Singh et al [15] and Ranga et al [16].…”