GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCES OF TOMATO GENOTYPES DURING WINTER SEASON AT EASTERN SURMA KUSHIYARA FLOODPLAIN OF BANGLADESH

A Biswas, Y Arafat, M S Islam, S Dey, S Sarker
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 79-85

Abstract:

An experiment was carried out at the field laboratory of Horticulture Department, Sylhet Agricultural University during the winter season from October 2013 to March 2014 with a view to evaluate fruit and seed production potentiality of tomato genotypes. Eight tomato genotypes namely C-11, C-21, C41, C-51, C-71, FP-5,WP-10 and HT-025 were used for this study. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block (RCB) Design with three replications. A remarkable variation was observed among the tomato genotypes at the seedling stage of hypocotyls color, stem length, root length and number of leaves at 1st inflorescences of seedlings etc. The genotype C-41 produced the highest number of fruits (48.00 plant-1) but its corresponding individual fruit weight was the lowest (34.33 g). The lowest number of fruits plant-1 was harvested from the line WP-10 (22.33 plant-1), and it had the highest individual fruit weight (66.67 g). Significant variation was observed in weight of fruit plant-1. The highest fruit yield plant-1 was recorded from the genotype HT-025 (2.02 kgplant-1) and the lowest was recorded from the line FP-5 (1.17 kgplant-1). Corresponding hectare-1 fruit yield was the highest in HT-025 (68.68 tones) followed by the line C11 (68.0 tones). The highest number of seedsfruit-1 was counted from the genotype C-51 (85.42) very closely followed by C-11 (81.67). The genotype C-41 produced the lowest number of seeds (49.28 fruit-1) identical to that of C-21 (51.72). The genotype HT-025 had the highest 1000-seed weight (2.90 g) which was identical to that of C-41 (2.80 g). The lowest 1000-seed weight was recorded from WP-10 (2.20 g). Seed yield plant-1 was varied from 3.64 g to 9.41 g. Among the genotypes, C-11 produced the maximum amount of seeds (319.94 kg ha-1) and lowest seed production recorded from WP-10 (123.76 kg ha-1).

Keywords:

Genotype, tomato, winter, solanum lycopersicon L.


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A Biswas, Y Arafat, M S Islam, S Dey, S Sarker. 2017. GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCES OF TOMATO GENOTYPES DURING WINTER SEASON AT EASTERN SURMA KUSHIYARA FLOODPLAIN OF BANGLADESH, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 4(1): 79-85.