National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The field experiments were conducted at the University Apiary, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University Pusa, Samastipur (Bihar) during the Kharif season to document the production of fruits and seeds of ridge gourd increased significantly by pollination of Xylocopa fenestrata. The aim of this research was to study the pollination of ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula), to determine the effect of the visits on flowers per plant, fruit set, fruits per plant, fruit size, fruit weight, number of seeds, weight of 100 seed and seed yield. The obtained results showed that the open pollination (OP) treatment produced the highest fruit set per cent, number of fruits per plant, fruit weight, fruit yield followed by Xylocopa pollination, viz. XP3, XP2 and XP1, whereas lowest in pollination exclusion (PE). The result reflected that there was 36.80% increased in fruit yield in OP while, it was 34.50% in XP3, 25.30% in XP2 and 22.20% in XP1 treatment over pollination exclusion. Similarly, the highest number of seed per fruit, weight of 100 seed was found maximum in OP followed by XP3, XP2, XP1 and was lowest in PE treatment. The percentage increment in seed yield was recorded highest in the OP (70.00%) followed by XP3 (50.00%), XP2 (30.00%) and XP1 (10.00%) over PE treatment. The insect pollinators play significant role in pollinating ridge gourd flowers and enhancing yield of crop.
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