Effect of Harvest Frequency, Seed Extraction Time Point and Post-Harvest Cooling on Organic Tomato Seed Production

In light of the continuous increase in organic agriculture, availability seeds has gained a lot importance. Especially since new EU regulation came into force on 1 January 2022, proposing reducing possibility using untreated conventional absence future. At same time, breeding tolerant, resistant and adapted varieties is at basis production as research to improve seed quality. this study, we investigated 8 tomato genotypes. The aim was see whether different fruit harvesting frequencies affect quality germination rate. hypotheses tested were (i) regularly removing fruits from field would total harvest, (ii) storage (iii) their ripening stage had an impact germination. Our results show that while differs between genotypes extraction time-points, procedures, with maturity levels, did not thousand-seed weight germination; these findings benefit both small larger-scale producers.