Short Communication MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF TOMATO

Tomato is sensitive to a number of environmental stresses, especially extreme temperature, drought, salinity and inadequate moisture stresses (Kalloo, 1993). In Bangladesh, lack of irrigation and drought resistant cultivars are the central problems for tomato cultivation. In the dry season with high temperature, flower abortion occurs and fruits drop frequently, which causes very poor yield of tomato. For this reason, farmers are not interested in cultivating tomato, especially in the summer season. But recently, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has released two varieties (BARI Tomato-4, BARI Tomato-5) which can grow both in summer and winter. Present investigation was undertaken to study some of the physiological and morphological parameters of tomato plants as affected by water stress.