• J. L. joshi
• Ajish Muraleedharan
• Y. Anduselvam
• K. Saravanan

Inorder to observe trait inter-relationship and direct and indirect effects of growth factors on fruit yield thirty three genotypes were sown in randomized block design during 2014. In general, phenotypic correlation coefficient was lesser in magnitude than the genotypic correlation coefficient for all the traits observed. Fruit yield per plant exhibited positive correlation with number of number of flower trusses per plant, fruit length, pericarp thickness, days to first flower, average fruit weight and number of fruits per plant. In path coefficient analysis the highest positive direct effect was noted in average fruit weight, followed by number of fruits per plant, fruit length and number of flower trusses per plant. Hence, these traits should be given more weightage in selection programme of high yielding genotypes in tomato.

tomato, correlation coefficient, path coefficient, fruit yield traits

"CHARACTER INTER-RELATIONSHIP AND PATH CO-EFFICIENT STUDIES IN TOMATO (Solanum lycopersicum L.)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.267-271, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811C87.pdf

"CHARACTER INTER-RELATIONSHIP AND PATH CO-EFFICIENT STUDIES IN TOMATO (Solanum lycopersicum L.)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp267-271, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811C87.pdf