Morphological characterization of bottle gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standley] genotypes

Abstract

An experiment comprising of 31 genotypes was conducted
at Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science,
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during springsummer
season of 2015. The genotypes were planted in
randomized block design with three replications.
Considerable amount of variability was noticed for the 10
morphological traits of leaf and fruit viz., leaf shape, leaf
length (cm), leaf width (cm), leaf pubescence, leaf blade,
fruit shape in longitudinal section, fruit neck, fruit skin color,
shape of fruit at blossom end, shape of fruit at peduncle
end.