Phenotypic evaluation of Latin American tomato cultivars
Lobo, M. and Medina, C.I.
Genetic Resources Program, CORPOICA, Rionegro, Ant., Colombia
Based on a multivariate Canonic Discriminant Procedure, with 12 quantitative characteristics, it was found
that a model, including the variables: petal number by flower, fruit size, locule number by fruit, pericarp width,
flower number by inflorescence and soluble solids fruit content, explained, for the first and second canonic
components 66% of the total variability. With the above variables, a cluster procedure was carried out and 10
clusters were produced, based on genetic distances, for 57 Latin American tomato cultivars assembled at the
university of California Tomato Genetics Stock Center, which are included on Table 1.
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