Morphological and agronomic characterization of some tomato (&lt;i&gt;Lycopersicon esculentum&lt;/i&gt;) germplasm in Ghana

Blay, Essie; Danquah, Eric Yirenkyi; Offei, SK; Kudadjie, C.Y.

doi:10.4314/gjas.v32i2.1898

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“…This is in accordance with Ogwu et al (2017), who reported that "aside from natural diversity of tomato germplasm, breeding programs have led to greater diversity in fruit size, colour and growth type which concluded that the key to the preference of tomato cultivars is in the variability of their phenotype especially fruit shape, size, quality, plant length, plant size and growth pattern." Blay et al (2011) also reported that a high variability was detected in tomato plant at flowering, fruit set and number of fruits per plant, fruit weight and yield. The results of this study also revealed a wide range of diversity in our collection for most of the evaluated traits, mainly related to vegetative, fruit, and yield and its components.…”

Section: Mean Performance Of the Five Tomato Varietiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

Evaluation for Diversity in Growth and Yield of Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum L.) Germplasm

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et al. 2023

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The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) fruit is quite popular and consumed in a variety of dishes across the globe. Despite the popularity, there is scarcity of information regarding characters that distinguishes varieties and often difficult to identify the germplasm with the best set of phenotypic characters from fruits available in the local market. In this study, five tomato germplasm, namely Roma Savannah, Tima, UTC, Dan Zaria and Tagino were collected from the Nasarawa State College of Agriculture, Lafia were evaluated at morphological levels in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with five replications at the Plant Science and Biotechnology Research Garden, Nasarawa State University, Keffi. The mean performance of five tomato varieties studied yield (fruits) and other agronomic traits were significantly different (P >0.05). The average results clarified that the Dan Zaria lines recorded the highest flowering values, as well as some fruit and vegetative growth traits. Furthermore, Tima, Tagino and UTC had the minimum number of fruits/plants, number of leaves, sub branches and flowers. In conclusion, the application for morphological techniques could be considered to provide suitable parameters for studying the evolution of the genetic divergence between the studied tomato lines.

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Section: Mean Performance Of the Five Tomato Varietiesmentioning

confidence: 94%