yield and some important characteristics of sixteen tomato cultivars in climatic conditions of southern regions of iran

to evaluate yield and some quantitave and qualitative characteristics of tomato cultivars in warm climate of southern provinces of iran and to determine suitable cultivars for these regions, sixteen cultivars were evaluated in an experiment using randomized complete block design with three replications in minab, hormozgan province. seeds were sown in 105 cells tray cultures containing peat moss in september and seedlings were transplanted in mid octeber. cultivars consisted of lesto, kimia, dft3000, dft3002, zd731, zd625, zd633, zd634, zd610, 9014, t97301, rft112, tus33812, th1462 and sunseed 6089 (check cultivar). morphological and agronomic traits were evaluated based on descriptor of tomato. yield and qualitative traits such as brix, vitamin c, ph and resistance to common fungal and viral diseases were also recorded. the results of evaluations showed generally that cultivars rft112, kimia and zd633 had higher yield, better quantitative and qualitative characteristics and satisfactory levels of resistance to diseases and were determined as suitable cultivars for minab and regions with similar climatical conditions.