Per se Performance of Hybrids and Parents for various Growth and Yield characteristics in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.)

Author: Durga Hemanth Kumar Ch, Narm Naidu L., Ravindra Babu M., Rajani A., Gopal K. and Paratpara Rao M.

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Abstract

An experiment was conducted in Kharif 2021 at P.G. Research Farm, College of Horticulture, Venkataramannagudem, to examine the yield characteristics of parents and hybrids as a whole. When it came to yield and yield-contributing traits, such as fruit yield/plant (5.59) and number of fruits/plant (67.45), VRSL 24 × VRSL 87 was the best genotype. The genotype VRSL 66 × VRSL 104 exhibited a significant advantage in plant height (111.89) and the highest number of primary branches per plant (11.96) compared to VRSL 18 × VRSL 104, which had a higher average fruit weight (88.71). In terms of fruit diameter and length, the genotype VRSL 18 × VRSL 44 was found to be superior (5.67 and5.70). The high yielding hybrids be utilized as commercial varieties after necessary multilocation trials.

Keywords

Tomato, mean, hybrids, per se performance

Conclusion

Considering the mean performance, four superior hybrids for fruit yield viz., The identified promising crosses (VRSL 24 × VRSL 87, VRSL 8 × VRSL 87, VRSL 18 × VRSL 87 and VRSL 87 × VRSL 104) could be further evaluated in comparison with commercial hybrids in multilocational trails to confirm their potentiality and to know their stability over different agroclimatic situations. Therefore, using the identified superior cross in additional improvement studies using different breeding strategies is recommended.

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Durga Hemanth Kumar Ch, Narm Naidu L., Ravindra Babu M., Rajani A., Gopal K. and Paratpara Rao M. (2023). Per se Performance of Hybrids and Parents for various Growth and Yield characteristics in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.). Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(10): 1167-1169.