Character Association and Path Coefficient Analysis in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

“…While number of fruit cluster per plant (0.341, 0.267) and fruit length (0.323, 0.298) expressed a highly significant positive correlation at genotypic level and significant positive correlation at phenotypic level, respectively. The results are in accordance with Mahapatra et al, (2013), Nagariya et al, (2015), Sridharan et al, (2016), Naveen et al, (2017) and Rawat et al, (2017) reported very high and significant correlation coefficient for above characters with fruit yield.…”

“…The present findings are in conformity with Dar et al, (2011) who reported that yield per hactare had strong positive association with number of fruits per plant, fruit yield per plant and average fruit weight. Similar results were also reported by Prasanna et al, (2005), Ramana, et al, (2007, Ahirwar et al, (2013), Nagariya et al, (2015 and Rawat et al, (2017).…”

Character Association and Path Analysis Study in Determinate Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

“…Primary branches plant -1 was found to be significantly and positively associated with marketable fruit yield plant -1 (0.51 and 0.38). This result is in agreement with the findings of Rawat et al, (2017). This character also significantly and positively associated with pericarp thickness only at genotypic level (0.27).…”

“…It was observed that average fruit weight was positively and significantly correlated with fruit girth (0.34 and 0.30) which indicates that fruit weight was increased with increase of fruit girth. Similar result was observed by Rawat et al, (2017). It had also positive association with pericarp thickness (0.29) only at genotypic level but it was negatively and significantly correlated with number of fruits plant -1 (-0.64 and -0.60).…”

“…This indicates those characters were decreased with the increase of number of fruits plant -1 . Similar negative correlation of number of fruits plant -1 with average fruit weight was found by Rawat et al, (2017). But at this level this character had shown positive and significant association with % fruit set (0.47).…”