To estimate the heritability of marsilea minuta in purba barddhaman

Marsilea minuta is a very common leaf vegetable to the people in west Bengal. The common name in Bengali of this pteridophytic plant is “Sushni sak”. It grows in tropical humid climate in all classes of soil round the year except the winter months. It has good medicinal potentiality as well as nutrient components. Though it grows in marshy fallow land in neglected conditions, but it could gain valuable leafy vegetable considering its nutrition quality as well as palatability. But indeed it is not freshly available in the market round the year. Because of its adaptability and life cycle pattern. It has been found that the sporophytic phase starts in the month of February – March and runs still month of August – September, particularly, in tropical humid agro-climatic location environment. Considering all these views in mind we undertake a venture for its adaptability, growth and development in the location of Burdwan Raj College garden. The local germplasm of this plant species was procured from Rajgram, Bankura, during April – May, 2018 and grown in the garden of the college. Different major chemicals viz – N, P, K were considered during its plantation in the nursery.Treatments viz – 10% N, 10% P, 10% K, 10% NPK, 10% NP, 10% NK, 10% PK, Control were applied as foliar spray during its cropping period.Various phenotypic characters such as leavesnode-1, total number of leaves, petiole length, fresh weight of leaves, dry weight of leaves etc. were observed and all the data were recorded to measure its heritability in this particular location. The aims and objectives of this experiment were to study the growth, behaviour and heritability values in this particular location.