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      <JournalTitle>Emergent Life Sciences Research</JournalTitle>
      <PISSN>2395-6658 (</PISSN>
      <EISSN>) 2395-664X (Print)</EISSN>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
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        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleType>Case Study</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Identifying Superior Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Breeding Lines Using Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical TraitsIdentifying Superior Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Breeding Lines Using Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical Traits</ArticleTitle>
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          <FirstName>SASIPRIYA</FirstName>
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      <Abstract>Tomato is one of the important vegetable crop of the world considering their production potential and consumption rate. It serves as an essential source of important nutrients like vitamins C and K, antioxidants, and lycopene, contributing to a balanced and healthy diet.  Although, the fruit yield and other contributing traits in tomato are governed by polygenes and are quantitatively inherited like in any other crops. A study was conducted in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) during kharif 2020 at Zonal Agricultural Horticultural Research Station, KSNUAHS, Shivamogga, to assess genetic variability and diversity and to identify superior segregants for shelf life and yield among 40 advanced breeding lines of a cross between Red Ball (Shelf life) × Arka Abha (High yield). Out of 16 characters studied,  lycopene content, shelf life, pericarp thickness, pulp content, fruit weight and five other yield contributing traits were positively skewed and were platykurtic, indicating complementary form of epistasis. Relatively high range of PCV and GCV were observed for almost all the traits considered under study. The lines were clustered in to 9 classes on the basis of genetic divergence analysis and the trait found to have contributed maximum for total divergence. Two superior lines such as G-32 and G-29 were selected for higher yield and increased shelf life from the total population.</Abstract>
      <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage>
      <Keywords>tomato,genetic diversity,lycopene content,fruit firmness,shelf life,advanced breeding lines</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://emergentresearch.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=15044&amp;title=Identifying Superior Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Breeding Lines Using Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical TraitsIdentifying Superior Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Breeding Lines Using Morpho-Physiological and Biochemical Traits</Abstract>
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        <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage>
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