Assessing the impact of different water stresses on physio-chemical properties and yield-related traits in tomato genotypes: Insights into stability and response

Veerendra K. VERMA; Krishnappa RANGAPPA; Amit KUMAR; Niharika DUTTA; Heiplanmi RYMBAI; Mayanglambam B. DEVI; Pankaj BAISWAR; Samarendra HAZARIKA; Pradeep KUMAR; Giandomenico CORRADO; Vinay K. MISHRA

doi:10.15835/nbha53114113

Authors

Veerendra K. VERMA ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Krishnappa RANGAPPA ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Amit KUMAR ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Niharika DUTTA ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Heiplanmi RYMBAI ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Mayanglambam B. DEVI ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Pankaj BAISWAR ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Samarendra HAZARIKA ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)
Pradeep KUMAR ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Division of Integrated Farming System, Jodhpur 342003 (IN)
Giandomenico CORRADO University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences, 80055 Portici (IT)
Vinay K. MISHRA ICAR Research Complex for North Eastern Hill Region, Umiam-793103 (IN)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha53114113

Keywords:

breeding, environment, germplasm, lycopene, proline, stress tolerance

Abstract

Tomato is a highly sensitive crop to moisture stress, and grown widely under varying conditions of moisture deficit. To identify the stable genotypes and characterize their responses to moisture stress, thirty-two diverse genotypes were evaluated at three imposed moisture regimes i.e., sub-optimal irrigation at 75±5% of the field capacity (FC; L1), irrigation at 50±5% of the FC (L2), and irrigation at 25±5% of the FC (L3) inside a passively ventilated plastic greenhouse. A wide range of variability was observed for 23 analyzed physio-chemical traits under study. All the analysed traits (except root-shoot ratio, chlorophyll index, total biomass, sugar content, and acidity) have shown higher heritability and moderate to high genetic advance, indicating that these traits are governed by additive gene action and responsive to selection under water stress conditions. All the growth and yield parameters were shown to decrease significantly with the increase of intensity of moistures stress. Likewise, physiological parameters, namely chlorophyll and the relative water content tended to decrease, while the rate of water loss and proline content tended to increase following an increase in stress level. Fruit quality traits like total sugar, vitamin-C, and lycopene contents were tended to improve with the increase of designated moisture stress. The additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) analysis of variance revealed the significant effects of moisture stress, genotype, and genotype × environment interaction for yield and yield-related traits. Based on multi-trait stability index (MTSI) analysis, MT-11, VL Tomato-4 and Megha Tomato-3 were considered most stable and promising genotypes for promotion for commercial production under the moisture stress conditions.

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