Pusa Safed Baingan-1: A new brinjal variety

Abstract

Pusa Safed Baingan-1 is the first white coloured oval fruited brinjal variety which has been developed by single plant selection from an indigenous material collected from the farmer's field of West Garo Hills, Meghalaya by the Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi. The materials were highly variable and single plant selection was carried out till the progeny became homozygous. This variety was identified by IARI Variety Release Committee, recommended for release by the Delhi State Seed Sub-Committee on 19th Dec, 2017 and notified by the Central Sub Committee on Crop Standard, Notification and Release of varieties for Horticultural Crops vide S.O. 692 (E) in 2019 for cultivation in the National Capital Region of Delhi including Delhi and adjoining areas in the states of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in kharif.