Assessment of fruit quality attributes of tomato hybrids involving ripening mutants under high temperature conditions

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-38

  Garg, Naveen ^a   Cheema, Devinder Singh ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Heterosis; High temperature; Nor; Quality; Rin; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASCORBIC ACID; CROP YIELD; DRY MATTER; FOOD QUALITY; FRUIT; FRUIT SET; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORTICULTURE; MUTATION; PLEIOTROPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIPENING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 80755168108     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2011.09.024     Document Type: Article

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