Evaluation of tomato accessions for quantitative and qualitative traits under agro climatic condition of Peshawar

Abstract

The objective of this research was to screen the tomato accessions for quantative and qualitative traits under agro climatic condition of Peshawar. 17 tomato accessions with a tomato commercial cultivar were evaluated in randomized complete block design with three replication at The University of Agriculture Peshawar, during kharif season 2016. Quantative traits studied were juice pH, total soluble solids, days to flowering, plant height, fruits plant -1 , fruit weight and fruit yield plant -1 . While qualitative traits comprised plant growth type, canopy size, leaf type, flower inflorance, fruit color, fruit shape and fruit firmness. Highly significant differences were observed among tomato accessions for all the quantative traits studied except juice pH. While qualitative traits showed that maximum accessions had indeterminate growth habit (88.9%), Intermediate canopy size (55.6%), curled leaf type (66.7%), medium number of flowers inflorescence -1 (55.6%), red fruit color (61.1%), deep globe fruits (26.7%) and soft fruit firmness (83.3%). Fruit yield plant

Evaluation of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Genotypes for Qualitative and Quantitative Characteristics

“…It is lowest in RHRT-15-7 (30 Days), followed by RHRT-15-4 (31 Days) and highest in . The results are in conformity with the findings of Raju et al, (2014), Kumar et al, (2012), Daret al, (2012, Jamdhade (2016), Spaldon and Hussain, (2017) and Samad et al, (2017) for 50% flowering. So, RHRT-15-7 genotype as an early maturing in crop improvement programmes to dissect the gene responsible for early flowering and transfer to other genotypes in order to get superior varieties.…”

“…Whereas the lowest plant height 48.10 cm in the genotype RHRT-15-6. The results obtained are in close agreement with the observations recorded by Ahmed et al, (2010), Olakojo and Adetula (2014), Jamdhade (2016), Jatav et al, (2017), Samad et al, (2017) and Nalla and Rana (2021) for average plant height. The genotypes RHRT-15-4, RHRT-15-17, RHRT-15-19, RHRT-15-20, RHRT-15-21, RHRT-17-1, RHRT-17-2 and RHRT-17-5 were observed indeterminate type of plant growth habit andrest of all thegenotypes along with two standard checks were recorded determinate in growth habit.…”

“…The genotypes RHRT-15-4, RHRT-15-17, RHRT-15-19, RHRT-15-20, RHRT-15-21, RHRT-17-1, RHRT-17-2 and RHRT-17-5 were observed indeterminate type of plant growth habit andrest of all thegenotypes along with two standard checks were recorded determinate in growth habit. The results are in accordance with the findings of Hossain et al, (2017) and Nadia et al, (2018) for plant growth habit. The maximum number of primary branches plant -1 five recorded in the genotype RHRT-15-4 and the remaining genotypes ranged between 3 and 4 primary branches plant -1 .…”

“…All the genotypes were observed large tomato type of leaf that is having serrated leaf margins. The results are in accordance with the findings of Nadia et al, (2018) for leaf type which is tomato type of leaf.…”

Morphological diversity of tomato accessions from the Gene Bank of the Republic of Srpska

“…Many studies concerning characterization of tomato have been conducted worldwide (Villand et al, 1998;Mazzucato et al, 2008;Oğuz et al, 2014;Samad et al, 2017), which is a good indicator of its importance for both scientific research and tomato production. In Serbia, phenotypic and molecular characterization was done on 29 tomato genotypes belonging to the collection of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad (Glogovac, 2016).…”