Claim · model-written summary
The cross Pusa Sneha × Pant Chikni Torai-1 showed 38.39% heterosis for fruit yield per plant over the commercial check in sponge gourd, significant.
- Taxon
- Sponge gourd
Luffa aegyptiacat0 - Material
- Pusa Sneha × Pant Chikni Torai-1e1
- Outcome
- heterosis percentage for fruit yield per plante2
- Value
- 38.39%e1
- Comparator
- commercial checke2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“Sponge gourd”
e1“Pusa Sneha × Pant Chikni Torai-1 (38.39%)”
e2“significant heterosis percentage for fruit yield per plant over the commercial check (Pusa Chikni)”
Title
Priyanka Panwar; Alka Verma; Dhirendra Singh; et al. PLANT CELL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2026. doi:10.56557/pcbmb/2026/v27i7-810718
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