Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2020) 9(4): 767-772 767 Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.904.091 Path Co-Efficient Analysis for Yield and Yield Attributing Traits in Brinjal [Solanum melongena L.] Mohanty Kalyan Kumar* and H. N. Mishra Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), Siksha ‘O’ Anusadhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar-751029, Odisha, India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction Brinjal [Solanum melongena L.] commonly known as eggplant is an important vegetable crop, cultivated in an area of 0.73 million hectares with a total production of 12.5 million tons having productivity of 18.9 tons per hectare in India (NHB, 2017). The demand for brinjal variety than the existing ones is always desired for the attributes like higher yield, more number of fruits, high fruit weight, good size fruits, earliness and resistant to diseases and pests. For selection of any desire genotype for a given environment pardoning the association of various yield contributing traits into direct and indirect effects to understand the relative importance of each trait that influences the yield becomes essential. Crop improvement through conventional breeding requires an insight into the magnitude of direct and indirect effects of yield component present in a crop species as it forms the basis of effective selection and hence, the present study on path co-efficient analysis in brinjal was taken up. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 4 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com A study on direct and indirect effects of 12 different quantitative characters of brinjal through path analysis study on yield and its component traits had revealed that days to first flowering had the maximum positive direct effect followed by plant height, number of fruits per plant, fruit weight and node at which first flowering appear, while rest of the characters like days to 50% flowering, number of branches per plant, days to edible maturity, days to first fruiting, fruit girth and fruit length exhibited negative direct effect. Keywords Brinjal, Path analysis, Direct effect, Indirect effect Accepted: 07 March 2020 Available Online: 10 April 2020 Article Info