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Chilli, an important vegetable crop in India. It is sensitive to environmental variations and climate change. An investigation was carried out to assess the stability of 25 test hybrids along with three commercial check varieties across different locations. Pooled analysis of variance showed the presence of significant genetic variability among the hybrids for all the characters studied. Variance due to hybrid × environment interaction was non-significant for red fruit yield plant¯1, number of fruits plant¯1, average fruit length (cm), fruit weight and fruit width except green fruit yield plant -1 . Considering all the stability parameters, CMS10A x Byadgikaddi for fruit weight and fruit width, CMS10A × Gouribidanur for green fruit yield plant -1 , CMS10A x LCA 206 for red fruit yield plant -1 and CMS8A × Byadgidabbi for number of fruits were exhibited below average stability and these Raghavendra et al.; JSRR, 14(3): 1-9, 2017; Article no.JSRR.33187 2 were specifically adopted to unfavorable locations. The test Hybrids, CMS6A × Tiwari for average fruit weight, CMS9A × LCA 206 for the character fruit width were well adopted to all environments. CMS10A × Gouribidanur proved to be the best yielding hybrid, having higher yield level than the check and were also stable for most of the characters as evident from their non-significant s 2 di values. Original Research Article

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Chilli or hot pepper belongs to the family Solanaceae having diploid chromosome number of 24. It is believed to have originated from South and Central America. The genus Capsicum includes twenty-seven species of which five species namely Capsicum annuum, C. frutescens, C. chinense, C. baccatum and C. pubescens are domesticated and twenty-two undomesticated species. Hense, a field investigation carried out at three environments viz., Balajigapade-Chikkaballapur (E 1), Department of Horticulture GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru (E 2) and K-block, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru (E 3) to assess the promising hybrids for yield stability pattern and its components during kharif 2014-15. Twenty-five test hybrids were evaluated with three standard checks (KBCH-1, Arka Meghana and Arka Haritha) in Randomized Complete Block Design and each treatment was replicated twice. Out of three environments studied E 3 was found to be the most suitable location for expression of many bio-physical characters. Significance of variance due to hybrid X environment (linear) was evident for green fruit yield. Variance due to environment (linear) was highly significant for all the traits across three environments indicating Original Research Article