Abstract
A pot experiment was carried out in the grill house of the Department of Seed Science and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh during the period of mid December 2014 to mid April 2015. The experiment conducted with five treatments (five tomato genotypes) and employed in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with four replications. Of the five genotypes two were obtained Japan (Pasta and Mimi) and the rest three from Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI). Genetic variations appeared for morphological and phenological characters and yield attributes in the five tomato genotypes. Taller plants with higher number of branches were observed in the Japanese genotype (Mimi) while number of days required to initiate flower and fruit initiation and fruit maturity were shorter in BARI tomato 12 and BARI tomato 14. Flower and fruit productions plant-1 was higher in BARI released tomato cultivars, therefore, the tomato yield was also higher in those cultivars.Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.3(2): 287-294, August 2016
Highlights
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most important edible and nutritious vegetable all over the world and it belongs to the family Solanaceae
The purposes of this study is to evaluate some morphological attributes and yield of tomato genotypes and to select the better genotypes of tomato in respect of yield performance from five elite local and exotic tomato varieties
Number of branches plant–1 The maximum (21.0) number of branches plant–1 was found in Japanese tomato Mini which was statistically differed from other genotypes
Summary
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most important edible and nutritious vegetable all over the world and it belongs to the family Solanaceae. Because of its wide adaptability, tomato is grown throughout the world. It ranks next to potato and cassava in respect of vegetable production in the world (FAO, 2013). In Bangladesh, it ranks 2nd which is next to potato (BBS, 2010) and top the list of canned vegetables. A large number of tomato varieties are growing in Bangladesh and those are exotic in origin and developed long before. In order to increase the tomato production in Bangladesh, it is very much essential to find out the varieties capable of growing round the year, higher yield and resistant to disease and insect pests. Various research organizations have developed a few high yi elding, disease and insect resistant varieties but these do not show better performance throughout the year because of photo-sensitiveness and insufficient wider adaptability
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