Abstract

MOYA, C et al. Participatory varietal selection in tomato crop. cultrop [online]. 2010, vol.31, n.1, pp. 00-00. ISSN 0258-5936.

Producers´ participation in the varietal selection of Solanum lycopersicon L. species, adapted to their farm agro-ecological characteristics, requires they should have available methodological tools to perform these tasks efficiently and qualitatively. To face this demand, results from research studies performed in the areas of INCA, San José de las Lajas, Havana province, and INIVIT, Camagüey province, must be taken into account, besides other works that were also carried out in «Juan Benito Ruiz» CCS, Batabanó. In the first case, comparative yield trials were conducted, as it was established by traditional plant breeding, whereas in the second one, some agro-biodiversity fairs were celebrated, as one of the tools from the new improvement methods known as participatory plant breeding. Trial results were compared with those from the fairs, in which Mara cv. and lines 1, 35 and 44 showed good performances in the comparative test and were among the most selected ones in the agro-biodiversity fair from Havana; however, line 43 did not show good performance in the comparative test, but it obtained the highest vote number in the fair. Lignon, Campbell-28, C-28 and Tropical-V varieties achieved the greatest values in the comparative test of Camaguey; nevertheless, just Lignon was the most selected one in the fair, surpassed by line 38 and equal to line 43 in the amount of votes. These results prove that final tomato varietal selection must be done by producers in their own farms.

Keywords : tomatoes; selection; plant breeding; farmers; participation.

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