Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

Heterosis breeding is mainly used to improve yield quantity of cherry tomato because traditional methods cannot be used to achieve this goal. A half diallel design was used to estimate the magnitude of heterosis for yield and its attributing traits in cherry tomato. Fifty-seven treatments comprising of 45 F1’s, 10 parents and 2 checks were evaluated for various yield and its component traits at Vegetable Experimental Farm, Division of Vegetable Science, SKUAST-Kashmir, Shalimar during the Kharif season, 2019 in Augmented Block Design. The maximum heterosis over standard checks was exhibited by the cross EC-914092 x EC- 914097 in E₁ and E₂ for fruit yield and its one or more important yield attributing traits. Hence, these crosses exhibited commercial potential to replace the checks after further testing.