Assessment of Genetic Divergence for Processing Traits in Tomato

Abstract

The present investigation on genetic diversity for some physico-morphological and biochemical traits in tomato were conducted at the Vegetable Research Farm, Department of Vegetable Crops, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. The materials for investigation comprised 35 genotypes of tomato. The genotypes were grouped into six clusters. Genotypes of clusters IV were observed to be the most divergent from genotypes included in clusters III and VI; and clusters III and V. Ample genetic divergence has also been observed between the genotype comprised in cluster V and I, and cluster V and II. The genotypes in the cluster I and II were closely related to each other for most of the characters. Among the clusters with high genotypic values, genetic divergence was more between genotypes of clusters IV and genotypes of clusters III, VI. It may be worthful to initiate a hybridization programme by taking suitable parents from these divergent clusters and practicing selections in segregating generations to recover suitable superior recombinants.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.001096

Pages

185 - 187

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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