Generating Novel Tomato Germplasm Using the Ancestral Wild Relative of Solanum pimpinellifolium

To create novel tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) germplasm, a wild relative, S. pimpinellifolium (a red-fruited LA1585 accession), was used as the male parent to cross with yellow-fruited mutant, e9292 (S. lycopersicum). Forty-four morphological characteristics were examined in present study; 22 (LA1585) traits and six lycopersicum (e9292) dominant hybrids (first generation, F1); 10 intermediate types, remaining resulted nonmorphological difference. Ten representative lines chosen from 1338 line of second generation hybrid (e9292 × LA1585). The ascorbic acid content higher three F2 than LA1585, which had parental levels, well lycopene two lines. fructose glucose contents five compared e9292, sugar/acid value broad-sense heritability values ranged 75.06% for total soluble solids 99.92% acid, average 92.66% 15 quality traits. When seedlings exposed NaCl mannitol, tolerance high salt concentrations drought enhanced (F2-266 F2-299) else tomatoes (e9292, F1 hybrids, F2-332). We created germplasm resources horticulturally desirable abiotic stress tolerance, thus offering methodology creation evaluation.