Phenotypic Characterization of Tomato (Lycospersicon esculentum)

Abstract

Tomato is one of the most important fruit vegetable commonly grown in world. Most of the people grow the tomato however they do not know about phenotypic characters of different landraces. Phenotypic characterization of these landraces will be helpful to the farmers to choice better landrace for particular area and practice scientific methods of its cultivation. This experiment was conducted in the field of Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Lamjung Campus, Nepal under Randomized Complete Block Design having eight treatments with three replication. The main objective of this study is to characterize the phenotypic appearance of eight varieties which includes Srijana, Acc#8951, C 2422, Collection 333, ACC 6253, ACC 9861, KHG 55 and C 2433. Effect of treatments was found significantly different in the sepal length, petal length, number of fruits per cluster, number fruit cluster per plant, weight of fruit, pH of fruit, pedicle length, first fruiting internode, thickness of pericarp, fruit weight per cluster, fruit yield per plant, number of leaves and non-significant in vine length, number of flower per plant total soluble solid and pedicel length from abscission layer. Among these varieties ACC#8951 has maximum number of fruit per cluster, fruit weight, fruit weight per cluster, fruit yield per plant. Similarly Srijana has maximum number of fruit cluster per plant and ACC 6253 has higher number of leaves.