A Study on the Inheritance of Some characters in Two Cultivars of Papaya (~arica papya L.)

Abstract

The inheritance of fruit weight, fruit shape, cavity percentage, thickness and firmness of flesh, and total soluble solids of papaya (Carica papaya L.) were studied in Line 10 Solo, Cocoa, F,, F,, BC, and BC, by using generation mean analysis. Characters controlled mostly by additive gene effects were fruit weight, fruit shape, thickness of flesh and total soluble solids. High narrow sense heritability was found in fruit weight, thickness and firmness of flesh and total soluble solids. Simple mass selection or other recurrent selection methods can be employed for cultivar improvement for these characters.