Selection of edible pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita pepo L.) genotypes

Abstract

In this study, some morphological characteristics of the pumpkin lines that on level of S2 and S3 were determined according to inbred and UPOV parameters as seed yield per fruit and plant, number of fruit per plant, average fruit weight and size, seed width/length rate and thousand seed weight, seed color and hint easiness. In S3 level of the study, 42.31 g seed yield were taken per plant on average, genotype 2- had maximum seed yield with 114 g/plant. Generally seed color was cream, twenty-eight genotypes were elliptical, one genotype was wide–elliptical, ninety-three genotypes were narrow–elliptical, sixty-six genotypes were found as hint easiness.