Identification of anthocyanin rich okra hybrids through heterosis breeding

The anthocyanin-containing purple or red okra varieties are found to be superior to green okra in terms of nutritive quality, medicinal properties, antibiotic as well as insecticidal properties and showed enormous health bene its from the different epidemiological studies.The present experiment on the development of anthocyanin-rich okra hybrids through heterosis breeding was conducted to incorporate the anthocyanin gene in the green podded varieties.For this, ive green podded varietiesnamelyHariKranti, Pusa Sawani, Thakath, AKO107, and BidhanSahebmukta were selectively crossed with the two local anthocyanin gene containing purple cultivars and developed ive anthocyanin-rich okra hybrids viz.HariKranti x L1, PusaSawani x L1, Thakath x L1, AKO107 x L1, L2 X BidhanSahebmukta by a speci ic crossing program.The anthocyanin rich okra hybrids were then evaluated with parents for the manifestation of heterosis for different growth, yield and quality characters in them.Three bestperforming crossed namely HariKranti x L1, PusaSawani x L1 and L2 X BidhanSahebmuktahave identi ied as promising anthocyanin rich purple okra hybrids based on their per se performance.