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Agronomic performance of tomato hybrids and inbred lines using vegetation indexes

Desempenho agronômico de híbridos e linhagens de tomateiro a partir de índices de vegetação

ABSTRACT

Image phenotyping presents great potential for field experiment evaluations in tomato crop. Validating this method for tomato plants is important to reduce costs and time. Thus, the objective of the present study is to investigate the agronomic performance of tomato hybrids and inbred lines using vegetation index. A randomized block design with three replications was used. A total of36 experimental hybrids and 9 inbred lines were evaluated, in addition to the recurrent genitor UFU-57 and a commercial hybrid, culminating in 47 treatments. During the experiment, average weight, transverse and longitudinal diameter, pulp thickness, number of lobules, soluble solids, β-carotene and lycopene concentrations were evaluated. Moreover, the vegetative development of plants was analyzed utilizing vegetation index, obtained using remotely piloted aircraft. The data were analyzed using mean test and multivariate analysis. The results showed that vegetation index can distinguish hybrids from inbred lines and can be used to evaluate tomato germplasm in future phenotyping.

Keywords:
Solanum lycopersicum L.; food sustainability; genetic dissimilarity; high-throughput phenotyping; image analysis

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