Vol. 4 (2) : March-April 2013 issue
Green Farming Vol. 4 (2) : 177-180 (March-April, 2013)
Production of hybrid seeds through bud pollination in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum M.)
S. PRANEETHA1*, V. RAJASHREE2, M. MANIKANDAN3 and C. CIBA4
Department of Vegetable Crops, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641 003 (Tamil Nadu)
Designation : 1Assoc. Professor (prejan27@gmail.com), 2Asstt. Professor, 3,4Sr. Research Fellow
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
Paper No. : P-0738
Total Pages : 4
Received : 31 January 2013
Revised accepted : 20 March 2013
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Citation :
S. PRANEETHA, V. RAJASHREE, M. MANIKANDAN and C. CIBA. 2013. Production of hybrid seeds through bud pollination in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum M.). Green Farming Vol. 4 (2) : 177-180 ; March-April, 2013
ABSTRACT
Conventional hybridization and bud pollination (Emasculation and pollination simultaneous application of pollen grains on the stigmatic surface and covering with butter paper cover) were effected to produce hybrid seeds of tomato on the selected parental lines (IHR – 709 as female parent and LE 812 as male parent). The results of the study showed that there is no difference in the two pollination methods for the observed characters like percentage of fruit set, no. of seeds/ fruit and seed weight / fruit. Therefore “Bud pollination" can be effectively employed in the hybrid seed production of tomato as that of conventional hybridization method to minimize the labour engagement, reduce the production cost and also to obtain high quality and high seed yield.
Key words :
Bud pollination, Conventional hybridization, Emasculation, Hybrid seed production, Hybrid vigour, Lycopersicon esculentum, Percentage of fruit set, Tomato.
