Department of Plant Breeding, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Nainital, U.P.
1Present address:—Department of Horticulture.
Publication No. 935 under Journal series of the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Experiment Station, Pantnagar.
Twenty-five varieties of tomato studied in the present investigation showed no apparent parallelism between genetic and geographic divergence. The component characters locules per fruit and plant height were found to be important for the expression of genetic divergence. It is viewed that selection of parents differing in locule number and plant height may be worthwhile for heterosis breeding.
