National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Pomato is said to be the amalgamation of potato and tomato, produced by grafting, where potato is used as a rootstock and tomato as a scion. The experiment was conducted under controlled conditions at Vegetable Research Farm, Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University, Palampur to investigate the effect of fertilizers on horticultural traits of pomato plant. The experimental material consisted of fourteen different fertilizer treatments comprising three controls T1 (100% RDF + FYM), T2 (100% RDF Sole Tomato) and T3 (100% RDF ( Sole Potato) for which potato cultivar “Kufri Himalini” and tomato cultivar “Palam Tomato Hybrid-1”, served as grafting parents. Most of the traits under investigation were found to be significantly affected by different fertilizer treatments. The effect of fertilizer treatments on survival of grafted plants was found to be non-significant. Among different fertilizer treatments for pomato under study, maximum number of shoots per plant and prolonged harvest duration of tomato fruits were recorded at 75% RDF along with fertigation @ 4.56 g m-2. Least days to attain graftable shoots were found at 125% RDF. Minimum days (42.93) to first flowering in pomato plants and maximum plant height were recorded at 125% RDF + 2.28 g m-2 fertigation. Yield attributes for potato and tomato in pomato plant were found at an upper hand in case of treatment T8 (100% RDF + 6.84 g m-2 (F) and T10 (75% RDF + 4.56 g m-2 (F) respectively.
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