Some studies on six American varieties of eggplants with particular reference to floral morphology, fruit set and fruit characters

The object of the present work is threefold: firstly, to study the basic characters such as plant growth habit, number of flowers per inflorescence, floral composition, number of fruits that set per inflorescence and fruit characters of six American eggplant types; secondly to study the success of fruitset under selfing, emasculation without pollination (so that parthenocarpic set may be induced) and crossing (so that the compatibility of the varieties may be known); and thirdly to compare the production potentialities of the varieties.