Influence of cluster number and spacing on set, growth, yield and quality of early fruit of the fwest virginia ‘63’ tomato lycopersicon esculentum (mill.)
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1974
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Sokoine Universty of Agriculture
Abstract
Most commercial tomato lines exhibit a pronounced indeterminate
growth habit on the main and lateral vegetative axes and weakly on
the raceme.
Due to this, their culture has been associated with
high material and labor requirements, earliness is usually delayed
and unharvested crop is high in regions with short growing seasons.
Current emphasis for processing types is to attain a once-over
destructive harvest made nearly efficient by determinate cultivars.
Despite the large genetic reservoir available to breeders for such
ideotypes suitable for mechanical harvestlngf it may be a long time
(Massey ejt al. (40)) before optimum combinations of physical
cha rac ter is t ic s of fruit and vine combined with high processing
quality are found•
Current indeterminate cultivars produce fruit of
excellent horticultural quality.
If we are to operate with these,
their pattern of vine growth, therefore, requires physical alteration
as a logical alternative.
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Influence-cluster number, Spacing growth, Yield-quality, Early fruit, West virginia ‘63’, Tomato lycopersicon esculentum (mill.)