Fruit Yield and Consumption Quality of F1 Hybrids Cherry Tomato Grown Under Plastic-Net House and Evaporative Cooling Greenhouse
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Climate change can cause yield loss and unstable fruit quality of cherry tomato plants under open-field production. The combination of plant breeding and improving production technology may increase fruit production and the quality of cherry tomatoes. Therefore, this research aimed to study the fruit yield and quality of cherry tomato F1 hybrids under different protected environments. Three F1 hybrids, three varieties of male parents (102, 103 and 104), and two varieties of female parents (201 and 202) were grown under a plastic-net house and an evaporative cooling greenhouse in the dry season from November 2020 to March 2021. Both environments assigned a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with three replications. The results showed significant differences among varieties, environments, and variety-by-environment interactions for all characteristics studied except variety-by-environment interactions for total soluble solid content trait. This study also found that the plastic-net house had high air temperature and low relative humidity. A stable and suitable level of air temperature and relative humidity were obtained under the evaporative cooling greenhouse. As a result, fruit weight and fresh yield of cherry tomatoes grown under an evaporative cooling greenhouse (12.20 g and 704.0 g, respectively) were higher than those grown under the plastic-net house (10.33 g and 642.0 g, respectively). On the other hand, cherry tomato fruit under plastic-net house conditions contains more total soluble solid content (10.8%) than that under evaporative cooling greenhouse (8.9%). F1 hybrid from 201/102, 202/103 and 202/104 had higher fruit yield than their male parents and contain more total soluble solid content than their female parents. Therefore, the cherry tomato hybrids production under an evaporative cooling greenhouse is suitable for producing good quality and high yielding tomatoes.
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