The Benefits Of Tomato

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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is widely consumed around the world and it fourth important commercial crops around the world after wheat, rice and soybean (Nowakowska, 2014). Tomato is a source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, potassium which are also antioxidants. The nutrition of tomatoes is high in quality that contribution to the diet due to the large volume of fresh and processed tomato products consumed (Panthee, 2013). Among the high nutrition quality produce on tomato, it provide a benefit for human healthy. However, tomato can be raw consume, using in sandwiches, salad, etc. and processing products as paste, puree, syrup, juice, ketchup, whole peeled tomato, etc. (Garg, 2008). With all species, taxonomic classification is in a state of constant…show more content…
Tomato growth determinate and indeterminate habit, were determinate species more nodes between inflorescence, with the stem terminating in inflorescence, grow to 2 m in height and suitable for field condition and indeterminate plant producing three nodes between each inflorescence, more than 10 m in a year growth in a greenhouse (Benton, 2007 and Atherton, 1986). Typically tomato stem were 4 cm in diameter at the base and cover with glandular and non -glandular hairs. It soft and brittle when young and hard, woody and plentifully branched when mature (Singh, 2004). Tomato leaves are arranged alternately on stem, petiolate; leaflets are unequal odd pinnate; the apex is acuminate, acute and irregularly serrate. Tomato is a variable compound leaf, 0.5 m long of leaf measure in greenhouse, up to 8 lateral leaflets arrange on the rachis of tomato leaf. Tomato root zone extend to more than 1.5m, primary tap root growing deeper than 0.5m undisrupted. Tomato flower is a prerequisite for the formation of fruits and delaying would be delaying the fruit production. It appears on 5 to 10 true leaves and flower were 5 to 15 per…show more content…
Livingston, in 1870, is generally recognized as the first tomato breeder in North America. However, as is the case with most cultivated crops, much of the very early improvement can be credited to those who first domesticated, cultivated, and consumed the crop, in the case of tomatoes, native South American’s (Basset, 1986). Effective crop improvement programs require clearly defined objectives and a well-conceived breeding strategy to accomplish established goals. Improved yield and quality are universal goals of most breeding programs and also disease resistance, stress tolerance, and fruit quality and quantity factors. Currently plant breeding developed an easy way on selection unimproved populations to systematic mating and selection procedures, the major methods of handling successive generations of most crops were simple pedigree and bulk systems. Pedigree system were seed of each single plant selection are maintained as separate lines whereas bulk system, single seed of plant selection are not maintained separately but are bulked into one population for each original

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