ISHS Acta Horticulturae 533: VIII International Symposium on Timing Field Production in Vegetable Crops
EVALUATION OF TOMATO COMMERCIAL CULTIVARS AND LINES FOR FRESH MARKET AND PROCESSING USE |
| Author: | P. Benedictos Jr |
| Keywords: | Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., varietal improvement, yield, qualitative characters |
| Abstract:
Several new fresh market and processing cultivars from foreign commercial seed companies and some lines from our tomato breeding program were evaluated for their yield and other horticultural characters. Tomato cultivation in Iran has occupied more than 130,000 ha for the year 1996. As more tomatoes are being consumed both for the fresh market and processing industries, the growers have to grow cultivars with high yield and good horticultural characters adapted to their environment. This experiment is composed of two trials - fresh market (16 cvs) and processing (16 cvs). These trials were conducted on a randomized complete block design with four replications for a period of two years from 1995 to 1996. Yield data and other important horticultural characters were recorded. For the fresh market cultivars, Hycross Hyb. had consistently the highest yield for the two-year period followed by SP-100, Floradade and Petoearly Hyb., which are not significantly different by DMRT. For processing cultivars, LIHB 232 had the highest mean yield followed by LIHC 020, SP-178 and SP-96. | |
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