Profiling of Mineral Nutrients and Variability Study in Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) Genotypes

• Published in: Agricultural research (India : Online) Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 225 - 231
• Main Authors: Nagar, Arvind, Sureja, Amish Kumar, Kar, Abhijit, Bhardwaj, Rakesh, Krishnan, S. Gopala, Munshi, Anilabha Das
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.06.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Calcium; Cell Biology; Copper; Correlation coefficients; Crop yield; Dietary minerals; Fruits; Full-Length Research Article; Genotypes; Heritability; Iron; Life Sciences; Magnesium; Manganese; Minerals; Nutrients; Plant Biochemistry; Plant Ecology; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Plant Sciences; Potassium; Selenium; Sodium; Variability; Zinc; Mineral nutrient; Genetic variance; Correlation; Calcium; Fruit yield; Additive gene effect; Iron; Copper; Manganese

The present investigation was carried out to estimate the extent genetic variability and character association for fruit yield and nine mineral nutrients (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, copper, zinc and selenium) in 76 genotypes of pumpkin during spring–summer season of the...