Studies on gene action in bhendi (abelmoschus esculentus l.moench)

The variance due to SCA was higher than that of the variance due to GCA for all the six characters of interest. The variance due to dominance was much pronounced than that of additive genetic variance for all the characters studied. The study revealed the importance of both dominance and epistasis for evolving genotypes with higher fruit yield. It may be achieved by resorting to population improvement programme.