Brinjal / Egg plant , Tomato 🍅

Brinjal 

(Solanum melogena )

Family:  Solanaceae

✓Origin: India and China 

✓ Botanically it's fruit is called berry .

It is self pollinated and flower and flower is bisexual

( Long styled : 100%  fruit set , medium styled : 50 % fruit set)

✓ Planting :

a) Autumn winter crop :

Seeds are sown in June -july in nursery bed and transplnting in July 

b) Summer crop:

Seeds are sown in Nov - Dec and transplnting in Feb- March 

c) Rainy season crop : 

Nursery sowing in February/ March 

✓Varieties:

a) Long type :

Pusa Purple Long ( PPL) , Pant Samrat , PH-4 , Pusa Purple Cluster ( PPC) , Azad Kranti , Pusa Kranti ( Oblong) 

Arka Sheel - All are purple colour

Green fruited long type : Arka Sirish , Arka Kusumkar 

b) Round fruited :

Pusa Purple Round ( PPR) , Pant Rituraj , T-3 , Banarasi Giant , Jamuni Gola , Manjari Gota ( Small) 

Hybrids : 

Suphal , Arka Navneet  Pusa Anmol , Azad Hybrid , Pusa Hybrid -6

✓Insect Pest - Jassid, Shoot  and fruit borer , Epilancha beetle , Coleoptera beetle , Red spider mite 

✓Diseases :

1) Damping off :

Pre and Post emergence deaseedlings th of seed and seedlings , measure , 

2) Phomopsis blight : 

Disease begins with blight of foliage and continues as fruit rot . 

Blossom end of fruit becomes water soaked , flesh becomes black and weathery 

3) Little leaf disease : 

Mycoplasmal disease 

✓ For seed production

•Isolation distance 

Foundation seed : 200 m

Certified Seed :  100 m

Tomato 🍅

(Lycopersicon esculentum )

Family : Solanaceae 

Origin : Andean region of South America

It is introduced in India in 19th century

• Fruit is berry and self pollinated crop 

•Flower : Bisexual 

• Isolation distance for seed production

Certified Seed 25 m

Foundation Seed : 50 m

✓ Red colour: Due to lycopene pigment

✓ Yellow colour: due to cartenoid 

✓ Tangerin colour - due to Prolycopene pigment 

✓ Alkaloid Tomatin ( Non toxic), Solanin ( Toxic)

Varieties: 

Determinate type : 

In  such variety apical growth is arrested by the apperance of flower bud .

Pusa Early Dwarf ( PED) , Pusa Ruby , Best of all , Arka Alok ( Resistant to bacterial wilt ) , 

Punjab Chhuhara ( PearcShaped) , 

Pusa Gaurav , La- Bonita 

✓ Indeterminate type:

Growth continues even after flowering and fruiting 

• Sioux , Pant Bahar , Arka Vikas , Arka Saurav , Marglobe , Angur lata 

• Hybrid : Karnataka F1 , Mangala F1 , Sheetal , Hot set 

• Exotic : Ostein kins kiz 

• Yellow coloured : : Ozu , Golden Dawn 

✓ Seed Rate : 500 g / ha in nursery 

✓ Spacing in transplanting : 

Row to Row : 60-75 cm 

Plant to Plant - 45-60 cm

✓ Physiological disorder:

A)Cracking : may be due to B- deficiency or heavy rain / irrigation.

B) Puffiness : break down of internal tissues. Affected fruits are light in weight

C) Cat face : Affected fruits have ridges , furrow, indentations due to unfavourable clumatic conditions during flowering

D) Blossom end rot : The blossom end of fruit has black , sunken necrotic lesions 

Flesh becomes brown due to uneven mositure supply, abnormally after fertilization or Ca - deficiency

F) Sun scaled : Due to high temperature sun injury takes place 

✍️ Agricos Vaishnavi Nimkar

Gunji ,Tq . Dhmangaon Railway

District : Amravati

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