Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Syeda Farwah, Baseerat Afroza, Rizwan Rashid, ZA Dar, Imran Khan, FA Lone, Seerat Rizvi, Syed Mazahir Hussain and Rani Shama

Abstract:
The present study was carried out with twelve parents and sixty-six crosses of tomato during the Kharif 2021 at Vegetable Experimental Field, Sher Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology-Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar. The experiment was conducted in Randomized Block Design with three replications. Observations were recorded on five qualitative traits viz., Lycopene content (mg/100 g), Total carotenoids (mg/100 g), TSS (°Brix), Titratable acidity (%) and Ascorbic acid (mg/100 g). Among the parents maximum lycopene content was observed in SKAU-T-914113(8.23 mg/100 g); total carotenoids SKAU-T-914113 (5.69 mg/100 g); TSS SKAU-T-01 (5.00 (°B); Titratable acidity SKAU-T-02 (1.27%) and ascorbic acid SKAU-T-02 (61.13 mg/100 g). Among crosses maximum lycopene content was observed in SKAU-T-914103 x SKAU-T-914108(9.72 mg/100 g); total carotenoids SKAU-T-620438 x SKAU-T-165690 (5.92 mg/100 g); TSS SKAU-T-165690 x SKAU-T-02 (6.33 °B); Titratable acidity SKAU-T-620438 x SKAU-T-914108 (1.57%) and ascorbic acid SKAU-T-02 x SKAU-T-914091 (64.27 mg/100 g). Overall analysis showed that parents SKAU-T-02 and SKAU-T-914103; crosses SKAU-T-914108 x SKAU-T-164334 and SKAU-T-914103 x SKAU-T-620438 showed maximum contribution towards qualitative traits. Also, positive correlation was found between total carotenoids and lycopene content.