Performance of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) genotypes for yield and quality traits under mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh

The experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of fifty six genotypes of tomato collected from different places of India for yield and quality traits during Kharif season of 2014. Among the genotypes used for evaluation 97/754 was the earliest (72.67 days) and EC-538146 had the highest number of fruits per cluster (4.87). Highest number of fruits per plant was recorded in EC-126903. Solan Tomato-1 was having highest average fruit weight (88.13 g); KS-254 gave highest yield per plant (2033.25 g); Best of All was having highest lycopene content (13.26 mg/100 g); TSS was maximum in KS-254; highest pericarp thickness was observed in Punjab Ratta (6.19 mm); plant height was found maximum in KS-254 (123.27 cm) and less number of locules per fruit was observed in EC-5863. Based on their performance the genotypes VL-Tamatar 4, KS-254, Solan Tomato-1, Solan Tomato-2, EC-620410, Punjab Ratta, Punjab Chhuhara and VTG-93 were found superior than check cultivar Solan Lalima. Therefore these genotypes can be used as such or can further be subjected to selection or heterosis breeding to get the desirable variety of tomato suitable for midhills of Himachal Pradesh.