Identification and evaluation of morpho-physiological variation in spine gourd (Momordica dioica Roxb.)

The present investigation was conducted with thirty four spine gourd (Momordica dioica Roxb.) genotypes for evaluate their performance for various quantitative as well as qualitative characters. All the qualitative characters viz. fruit colour, fruit shape, leaf colour, leaf margin, leaf pubescence, stem colour, spine strength, conical spine density, pedicel attachment with the fruit, node colour, collection site showed wide variation.