Vol. 12, Issue 7 (2023)

The present investigation was carried out at three locations including Vegetable Experimental Field, Division of Vegetable Science, SKUAST-Kashmir Shalimar, KVK Malangpora Pulwama and KVK Budgam during kharif 2021-22. During the study a comparative performance of twelve parents of tomato along with their sixty-six crosses were evaluated for maturity, yield attributing and quality traits for identifying genotypes with high yielding ability, better quality and significant variation were found among the genotypes for the traits studied. The maximum fruit yield per plant and per hectare was recorded in parents SKAU-T-1424 (1.79 kg/plant, 662.96 q/ha) followed by SKAU-T-1009 (1.76 kg/plant, 653.08 q/ha) and SKAU-T-9801 (1.76 kg/plant, 651.85 q/ha) whereas in crosses SKAU-T-1219 × SKAU-T-1429 (2.07 kg/plant, 777.77 q/ha) followed by SKAU-T-1429 × SKAU-T-9862 (2.06 kg/plant, 764.19 q/ha) and SKAU-T-1219 × SKAU-T-1701(2.05 kg/plant, 759.25q/ha). For quality traits maximum ascorbic acid (mg/100 g) was found in SKAU-T-1429 (47.7) followed by SKAU-T -1464 (47.5) and SKAU-T-1701 (33.3) and in crosses SKAU-T-1429 × SKAU-T -9862 (49.5), SKAU-T-1429 × SKAU-T -1009 (46.8) and SKAU-T - 0922 × SKAU-T -1429 (38.8). Maximum lycopene content (mg/100 g) was found in parents SKAU-T-1429 (5.69) followed by SKAU-T-9801 (5.42) and SKAU-T -0301 (4.75), and in crosses SKAU-T-1429 × SKAU-T-1701 (5.78), SKAU-T-1429 × SKAU-T-1009 (5.67) and SKAU-T-0922 × SKAU-T-1464 (5.48). Thus overall mean performance depicted that their exists sufficient amount of variation in the given set of parents and crosses, thereby indicating a good scope for improvement of the population through various breeding procedures.