Comprehensive Evaluation of Diverse Tomato Germplasm for Agronomic Performance, Marketability, Consumer Preference, and Prebreeding Applications
Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) breeding increasingly emphasizes the integration of productivity, fruit quality, marketability, and consumer-preference traits. In the present study, 39 diverse tomato genotypes representing multiple fruit types were evaluated across two field environments at Tifton, GA, during the...