Performance of different genotypes of tomato under foot hill condition of Nagaland

A field experiment was conducted during Rabi 2014–2015 at the Experimental Farm of Department of Horticulture, School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development, Medziphema Campus, Nagaland University to evaluate the performance of different genotypes of tomato under foothill condition of Nagaland. Eighteen genotypes of tomato viz., T¹-2012/TODVAR-1, T²-2012/TODVAR-2, T³-2012/TODVAR-3, T⁴-2012/TODVAR-4, T⁵-2012/TODVAR-5, T⁶-2012/TODVAR-6, T⁷-2012/TODVAR-7, T⁸-2012/TODVAR-8, T⁹-2013/TODVAR-1, T¹⁰-2013/TODVAR-2, T¹¹-2013/TODVAR-3, T¹²-2013/TODVAR-4, T¹³-2014/TODVAR-2, T¹⁴-2014/TODVAR-3, T¹⁵-2014/TODVAR-4, T¹⁶-2014/TODVAR-5, T¹⁷-2014/TODVAR-6 and T¹⁸-H 86 (C) were evaluated in randomized block design with three replications. Results revealed that all the genotypes exhibited significant variation in their performance in term of growth, yield and quality characters. Among the genotypes, 2012/TODVAR-1 recorded maximum plant height (116.90 cm), number of branches plant⁻¹ (15.07) and number of leaves plant⁻¹ (100.00). The genotype 2012/TODVAR-2 recorded highest fruit yield hectare-1 (91.25 tones). Days to fruit ripening (80.00) was also found early in genotype 2012/TODVAR-2. Highest vitamin C content in fruit was recorded in genotype 2013/TODVAR-1 (58.25 mg 100g⁻¹) while 2012/TODVAR-3 recorded maximum TSS (7.97°Brix) content in fruit. Thus, it can be concluded that genotype 2012/TODVAR-2 was found to be potential yielder with early maturity under foot hill condition of Nagaland.