An experiment on evaluation in 36 genotypes of french bean was conducted at department of vegetable science, college of Horticulture, Bagalkot during rabi season of the year 2015-2016. The analysis of variance was significant (p=0.01) for all characters indicated higher magnitude of variability. Moderate GCV and PCV were observed for the traits plant height, number of primary branches, pod length, pod width, pod flesh thickness, number of pods / cluster, number of pods/ plant, weight of ten pods, number of root nodules/ plant, drymatter content of pods and roots. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance was recorded for the plant height, pod width, number of pods/plant, weight of ten pods, yield /plant, number of root nodules /plant, drymatter content of pods, roots and protein content. It indicated the presence of additive gene effects. Thus, there is an ample scope for improving yield and quality characters in french bean through direct selection.

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Character association and path analysis in sixty genotypes of brinjal was studied for 17 important characters. The character association studies revealed that the total yield per plant had significant and positive association with plant height (0.385), plant spread (0.660), number of primary branches (0.545), stem girth (0.539) at 90 days after transplanting (DAT), early yield per plant, number of fruits per plant and fruit diameter. While it was negatively and significantly associated with days to first flowering (-0.302 and -0.230), days to 50 per cent flowering (-0.272 and 0.229) and days to first fruit maturity (-0.164 and -0.168) at both genotypic and phenotypic level. Narrow differences between the genotypic and phenotypic correlation coefficients were observed for various traits in the present findings. This indicates the lesser influence of the environment in the expression of these traits and presence of strong inherent association among the traits. Path analysis studies revealed that significant positive association at genotypic level among the traits viz., plant height (0.235), leaf area (at 90 DAT) (0.228), days to first fruit maturity (0.162), number of fruits per cluster (0.280) and early yield per plant (1.903) had exhibited true association with direct effect on yield per plant. The direct selection for these traits would be rewarding for improvement in the total yield per plant.