Screening Selected Solanum Plants as Potential Rootstocks for the Management of Root-Knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita)

Table 4

Mean yield parameters of the rootstocks after RKN infestation in 2015 (year 1) and 2016 (year 2).

Treatment	Days to 50% flowering	Number of fruits/plant	Fruit yield/plant (g)	Fruit yield (kg/ha)	Mean fruit weight/plant (g)
Year 1 (dry season)
Sam	28.00^a	2.33^a	23.70^a	2961^a	8.89^a
Mon	27.00^a	5.00^ab	44.62^a	5581^a	7.43^a
S. M	39.00^b	10.33^bc	227.50^c	28442^b	22.74^b
S. A	51.00^c	12.00^c	147.61^b	18448^ab	12.30^b
Year 2 (rainy season)
Sam	27.00^b	13.00^ab	870.30^b	27196.87^b	66.95^c
Mon	29.00^b	20.00^b	1236.60^c	38643.75^c	61.82^c
S. M	41.00^c	9.00^a	339.10^a	10596.88^a	37.68^b
S. A	58.00^d	19.00^b	204.40^a	6387.50^a	10.75^a

Means having different letters in a column differ significantly (). Rootstocks: Sam = Samrudhi F1; Mon = Mongal F1; S. M = S. macrocarpon; S. A = S. aethiopicum.