“…The negative direct effect via fruit yield per plant showed that plant height at 120 DAT (-0.397), fruit length (-0.464) and fruit width (-0.258) are in association with Vikram et al, (2014), Vijaya et al, (2014), Kadwey et al, (2015) and Abhinaya et al, (2016). The total soluble solids (-0.192) had indirect effect via yield which are in accordance with Sood et al, (2007).…”