Effect of Spacing and Training on Vegetative Growth Characteristics and Yield of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Grown in Polyhouse

Influence of Spacing and Pruning on Growth Characteristics, Yield and Economics of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Grown Under Protected Environment

“…Early fruit setting coupled with exposure of fruits to sunlight and aeration could be the reasons for early picking in plants pruned to 2 stems. Similar results were also reported by Yadav et al, (2017). Plant geometry also had significant effect on number of nodes/plant, internodal length and plant height (Table 1).…”

“…Area of this crop under the protected environment is increasing day by day due to higher as well as quality returns from inside environment as compared to the open field conditions. Tomato belongs to family Solanaceae with diploid chromosome number (2n=24) and is a typical self-pollinated day neutral plant (Yadav et al, 2017). Vegetable production, profits are greatly dependent on the quantity and quality of the yield of the crop.…”

Efficacy of different agro-techniques on growth, yield and disease incidence on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum l.) crop of north western Himalayan region

“…In case of two stem training system, there would be maximum sunlight penetration and enhanced photosynthetic activity making more assimilates available for flower cluster setting (early shift from vegetative to reproductive phase) as compared to three stem training system, early and higher rate of morphogenesis (cell division, cell differentiation, cell elongation and cell maturation) and also good aeration through the canopy which might be a valid reason to increase the number of flower clusters per plant and ultimately increased fruit set (Ara et al, 2007;Mbonihankuye et al, 2013 andAnsari et al, 2017). Yadav et al (2017) also observed the highest number of fruits per plant (86.59) with a twin stem training technique due to greater levels of carbohydrates and soluble chemicals in the fruits.…”

Effect of Crop Management Practices on Growth, Yield, Quality, Economics of Buckeye Rot, Alternaria Disease of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) var. Solan Lalima

“…The possible reason in two stem trained plants may be that exposing plants to more sunlight resulted in more fruits due to increased cell division and cell elongation. Yadav et al [40] also recorded maximum number of fruits per plant (86.59) and number of fruits per clusters (5.50) in T 2 (double stem). Ravinder et al [41] also reported that mulching significantly improved the number of fruits per cluster and per plant.…”