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IDENTIFICATION OF TOMATO GENOTYPES FOR SALT TOLERANCE (Pages : 17 - 21)

A pot experiment was carried out to study the salt tolerance of eight tomato genotypes viz., J-5, Binatomato-5, BARI tomato-7, CLN-2026, CLN-2366, CLN-2413, CLN-2418 and CLN-2443 at Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture during October 2006 to January 2007. Three levels of salinity viz., control, 6 and 10 dS/m were imposed at pre-flowering stage of tomato genotypes. Plant height, primary branches, flower cluster, fruit cluster, number of fruits and total fruit yield/plant, individual fruit weight, amino acid content in leaves gradually decreased while total sugar and reducing sugar content in leaves increased with the increase in salinity levels. BARI tomato-7, CLN-2026, CLN-2413, CLN-2418, CLN- 2366 and CLN-2443 had shown better performance with salinity and identified to be better tolerant. Download