Abstract:
The experiment was carried out at Horticulture Farm, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh from October 2016 to April 2017.
The experiment was conducted with nine exotic tomato lines and a commercial
variety BARI Tomato-14 to study the performance of the exotic tomato lines
under the environmental condition of this University. The experiment was laid
out in Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Among the
all parameters of growth and yield performance, the tallest plant (137.7cm), high
fruit set (56.28%), highest yield (95.6 t/ha) was observed in L3 while shortest
plant (80.66cm), minimum fruit set (16.27%) and lowest yield (28.13 t/ha) was
observed in L8. Considering the quality parameters, Vitamin-C content was
found highest (26.96 mg per 100 g fruit) in L9 and maximum TSS (4.35) was
also found in L9 while the pH
was recorded highest (4.88) in L2. Regarding
storage, maximum shelf life (16.67 days) was recorded in L3. In the present
study it was observed that L3 gave better performance but other lines were also
adopted well and gave good performance in respect of yield and quality
parameters.
