TY - JOUR AU - Raja, K PY - 2021/03/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Seasonal influence on polymorphic flowering behaviour, fruitset and seed recovery in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars JF - Bangladesh Journal of Botany JA - Bangladesh J. Bot. VL - 50 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.3329/bjb.v50i1.52662 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJB/article/view/52662 SP - 7-13 AB - <p>Flowering behavior in brinjal (<em>Solanum melongena </em>L.) shows that it produces four type of flowers <em>viz</em>., long, medium, short and pseudoshort styled flowers. Among these flowers, the long and medium styled flowers have the biggest ovary and set fruits in both the cultivars <em>viz</em>., PLR 1 and PLR (Br.) 2. Whereas, short and pseudoshort styled flowers did not set fruits. In addition, the highest fruitset (84.7%) was recorded in long styled flowers than the medium styled flowers (77.7%). However, no significant difference in seed recovery was observed in the fruits from long and medium styled flowers. The seasonal influence on flowering and fruitset was also noticed; in which, Kharif season with less difference in day-night temperatures, high rainfall and relative humidity and less wind velocity favoured occurrence of more number of long and medium styled flowers with high fruitset in both the cultivars.</p> ER -