Comparative performance of various cherry tomato (Solanum spp.) accessions and their crosses for various quantitative traits under open-field and polyhouse conditions

The present investigation was carried out at the Experimental Farm, Division of Vegetable Science, SKUAST-K, Shalimar, India during Kharif season 2020. Fifty-seven treatments comprising of 45 F1’s, 10 parents and 2 checks were evaluated for various yield and yield attributing traits in Augmented Bock Design (ABD). Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among the parents (accessions) as well as their crosses for all the traits under both environments, in the individual as well as in pooled data analysis. The maximum fruit yield hecatre-1 (q) was recorded in the accession EC-520074 (961.69) and cross EC-914092 x EC-914097 (1026.39) in E1; accession EC-914097 (719.69) and cross EC-914092 x VRT-02 (971.62) in E2 and accession WIR-3957 (611.93) and cross WIR-5032 x EC – 914092 (898.59) in pooled data analysis indicating that these should be considered for further improvement in future breeding programmes in terms of fruit yield hecatre-1.