M.A. Goffar
M.A. Rahman
M.L. Bari
GMA. Halim
S. Ahmad
P. Hanson
A. Acedo
W. Easdown
Tomato hybrids, Yield, Disease resistantance, Shelf life
Experimental field of Olericulture Division of Horticulture Research Centre (HRC), BARI, Gazipur
Variety and Species
The experiment was conducted at the experimental field of Olericulture Division of Horticulture Research Centre (HRC), BARI, Gazipur, Bangladesh during the winter season of the year 2014-15. The experimental filed was prevailed loamy soil having PH 6.5 with well drained location. The experiment was laid out in the randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 3 replications. Ten treatment combinations were randomly allotted in each block. The size of a unit plot was 4.8m × 1m, and the plant spacing was 60cmx40cm. Each unit plot contained 2 rows of plants (24 plants/ plot) and border rows were planted with same tomato entries in the four sides. The space in between plots was 40cm . The AVRDC supplied nine hybrid tomato lines viz.: AVTO1432, AVTO1459, AVTO1437, AVTO1463, AVTO1438, AVTO1461, AVTO1468, AVTO1465 and AVTO9708 along with one local check (BARI Tomato-14) were included in this study. Seeds of supplied entries were sown on 10-10-14 and thirty days old seedlings were transplanted in the main plot on Nov. 09-11-2014. The crop was fertilized with cow dung 10 ton, N-253kg (urea- 550kg), P- 90kg (TSP-450kg), K-125 (MoP-250kg), S- 21kg (Gypsum-116kg), Zn-4.9kg (Zinc Sulphate-14kg) and B-2kg (12kg) per ha, respectively. Half of the quantity of cow dung, entire P and half of the K, entire zinc and boron were applied during land preparation. The remaining half of the cow dung was applied during pit preparation. The rest of K and entire N were applied at three equal installments at 15, 30 and 45 days after transplanting. For safer tomato production, crop management, plant protections, irrigation and other intercultural operations (weeding, pruning and staking etc.) were done as and when necessary following suggested cultural practices for tomato production as mentioned in the guide line of AVRDC. Data on yield and yield attributing parameters with qualitative traits were recorded from 20 inner plants of each plot escaping border plants following AVRDC guide line as below: Tomato fruits were started harvesting at breaker stage from 20 inner plant of each treatment. In every harvest marketable (worth selling) and non marketable ((with defects such as cracking, blossom end rot, gray wall, blotchy ripening, puffiness, sunscald, cat face, insect damaged fruits, etc.) were counted and weighed. Following same manner, there were four harvests done and data on days to 50% flowering, growth habit, biotic stress rating, length of fruit, fruit breadth, number of fruits per plant, yield of fruits per plant, average fruit weight, yield of fruits per plot, yield of fruits per hectare and qualitative traits (shelf life, firmness and ascorbic acid). The recorded quantitative data were analyzed statistically by F-test to find out the variation due to different treatments. Treatment means were compared by Least Significant Difference (LSD) test following R Software 3.1.2 (Anon., 2015).
BARI HRC (Olericulture) Annual Research Report 2014-2015
Report/Proceedings