Print-20-VS20100084 Combining ability studies in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is one of the important and popular vegetable crop grown through out India is also. It is a warm season fruit vegetable used as salad and for pickling purpose. The study aim to determine the combining ability which not only provides necessary information regarding choice of the parents but simultaneously also illustrate the nature and magnitude of gene effects. The experimental material for present investigation consisted of 40 entries including three female’s,? nine males? with their 27 hybrids. The experiment was laid out Line x Tester method in a randomized block design (RBD) with three replications during Kharif – 2009 at experimental farm, N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari. Each entry was plante