Thermotolerant Cucumber Genotypes Evaluation

The present experiment was carried out during 2021-22 at National phytotron facility, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. The materials for present investigation comprised of 10 germplasms of cucumber collected from various parts of India. On the basis of their performance in two rounds of screening and performance under open field conditions, these genotypes are grouped into thermotolerant and thermosensitive. Five thermotolerant ‘TT’ and five thermosensitive ‘TS’ cucumber lines were grown in the pots with standard NPH potting mixture of soil, sand and coco peat in ratio 2:1:1 (v/v) (Table 1; Figure 1). Three seeds were sown in each pot and 5 replications were maintained for each genotype in both control and treatment conditions. A completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications per genotype per treatment was used. Data were taken from 3 randomly selected replications from each genotype. Seedlings were irrigated by sprayer cans with water and Hoagland nutrient solution every day morning and kept in such a condition that there was no water deficit. More frequent watering of plants was done under treatment to avoid any moisture stress. To avoid infections with fungal diseases, seedlings were occasionally sprayed with captan 2g/liter.