STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR FLOWERING AND MATURITY TRAITS IN CUCUMBER (CUCUMBERS SATIVUS L.)

Abstract

Cucumber is an important vegetable crop grown year found for salad and pickling purposes. There is a need to develop and identify the genotypes, which can successfully be grown during summer and Kharit season. Response of cucumber genotypes to range of environmental conditions is an important step in the development of improved varieties. The selection of improved varieties is often inefficient due to genotype x environment interaction. Genotypes grown in multienvironmental trials may react differently to a range of climate conditions, soil characterstics or technical practices ( Lacaze and Roumet, 2004). Several methods have been proposed for determining the stability of varieties tested under different environments (Eberhart and Russell, 1966; Perkins and Jinks, 1968) and to get reliable estimates of genotype x environment interaction. A attempt has been made to identify the stable genotypes of cucumber with desirable characters for commercial cultivation.