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Genetic control of reproductive and fruit quality traits in crosses involving cultivars and induced mutants of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

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Development of mutants and their effective utilization to incorporate desirable traits in tomato would be a sound improvement strategy to develop so called ‘smart’ tomato variety of the coming century. Initially we developed three induced mutants from two varieties, ‘Patharkuchi’, a local adapted cultivar and an introduced variety ‘Berika’, and then three crosses (Berika × P Mut-5, Berika × P Mut-11, Patharkuchi × B Mut-1) were made to involve in these two varieties and their respective mutants. Six generations (P1, P2, F1, F2, BC1 and BC2) of three crosses were utilized to study the genetic control of yield and quality traits, and to study the genetic basis of formation of dark green fruit. The nature and magnitude of gene action controlling the inheritance of 27 quantitative traits differed from one cross to another and from one trait to another, mostly conditioned by nonadditive gene action and duplicate epistasis. The prevalence of duplicate epistasis in three crosses for most of the traits revealed that the pace of progress through conventional selection process would be hindered as this kind of epistasis might result in decreased variation in F2 and subsequent generations. Recurrent selection in biparental progenies would be helpful for exploiting this type of nonallelic interaction through generation of high frequency of desirable recombination and concentration of genes having cumulative effects in the population. We also observed complex genetic behaviour of some of the traits revealing significant epistatic components. Inheritance study of ‘dark green fruit’ (dg1) of Berika × P Mut-5 cross revealed a single recessive gene governing the trait and expressed when the mutant gene was in homozygous recessive condition (designated as dg-1/dg-1).

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The first author is thankful to the Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development Division, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for providing financial assistance in carrying out this research.

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  1. ID, PH and AC designed the research project; ID and ML performed crossings and phenotyping; ID, PH, ML, TB, PM, SB and AC arranged the data and performed statistical analysis; ID, ML, TB, PM, and SB drafted the manuscript; PH and AC revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content.

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    Ipsita Das, Pranab Hazra, Mrinalini Longjam, Tridip Bhattacharjee, Praveen Kumar Maurya, Swadesh Banerjee & Arup Chattopadhyay

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Das, I., Hazra, P., Longjam, M. et al. Genetic control of reproductive and fruit quality traits in crosses involving cultivars and induced mutants of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). J Genet 99, 56 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-020-01209-7

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