Selection Criteria for Improving Yield in Chili (Capsicum annuum)

Table 1

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) for 15 characters of chili.

Traits	Replication (2)	Genotype (19)	Error (38)
Days to first picking	63.22		5.60
Harvest duration	0.95		8.39
First fruit maturity	1.52		4.41
100% fruit maturity	66.72		4.52
Plant height (cm)	95.24		61.66
Number of primary branches	13.27		6.04
10 edible fruit weight (g)	76.39		219.06
10 dry fruit weight (g)	1.48		0.38
Fruit length (cm)	0.07		0.84
Fruit width (cm)	0.02		0.01
Number of seeds per fruit	202.82		24.33
Weight of seeds per fruit (g)	0.01		0.00
Number of fruits per plant	177.32		243.35
100-seed weight (g)	0.01		0.00
Fruit yield per plant (g)	370.31		4218.06

Values in parenthesis are degrees of freedom and and indicate significance at 5% and 1% levels, respectively.