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Assessing the Genotypic Differences for Seed Set and Seed Abortion in Tomato Genotypes

Chalapathy K. Reddy¹, Ganeshaiah Narayana¹ & Uma Shaanker²

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1. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, INDIA
2. Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, INDIA

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Received 27 April 2009 11:05 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009

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Plant Biology, Evolutionary Biology

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• genotypic difference
• matured seeds
• seed abortion
• tomato
• ovules

Abstract:

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most popular fruit vegetable around the world. Seed abortion where in only a small proportion of ovules in an ovary develops into matured seeds, is a wide spread phenomenon in multi-ovulated species. In agriculturally important crops such as chickpea, groundnut, Brassica, pigeon pea and field bean seed abortion substantially reduces their productivity. Tomato genotypes exhibited seed abortion where in only some proportion of ovules developed into matured seeds. Seed abortion in tomato cultivars would increase the cost of hybrid seed production. In this study, we have analyzed 19 genotypes for number of ovules, seed set and seed abortion. Tomato genotypes differed significantly for number of ovules per ovary, seed set per fruit and per cent seed abortion. The ovules, matured seeds and seed abortion ranged from 52 to 412 per ovary; 50.90 to 240.76 per fruit and 6.06 to 24.44 per cent respectively. Strong positive correlation was observed in genotypes with higher number of ovules showed higher percentage of seed abortion.

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Reddy, Chalapathy , Narayana, Ganeshaiah, and Shaanker, Uma . Assessing the Genotypic Differences for Seed Set and Seed Abortion in Tomato Genotypes. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3183.1> (2009)

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