Author(s):

Vindya Sabbineni, Khobragade AM and Mamatha Koraboina

Abstract: A field experiment was conducted at Vegetable Research Center, Department of Horticulture, VNMKV, Parbhani to study the effect of weather parameters on quality aspects of tomato. The experiment was conducted in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications in rabi season of 2015-16 and treatments consists of 4 dates of sowing i.e.26^th August 2015 (MW-35), 9^th September 2015 (MW37), 23^rd September 2015 (MW39) and 7^th October, 2015 (MW41) at 15 days intervals and two varieties V₁ (Phule raja) and V₂ (PKM-1), and found that total soluble solid content, acidity were not significantly influenced by either dates of sowing or varieties under the study. However, the ascorbic acid content in the tomatoes was varied among the dates of sowing and between the varieties i.e crop sown in D₂ (MW-37) observed highest ascorbic acid content (23.34 mg/100g) and found to be significantly superior over the all other dates of sowing and the var. Phule raja reported highest ascorbic acid (i.e.20.38 mg/100g) and significantly superior over the PKM-1.

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