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Estimation of Optimum Plot Size and Shape for Fielfd Experiments in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculuntum Mill)

Volume : 62
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 110 - 113
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Abstract


Uiformity trial tomato crop was onducted at the Vegetable Section.TamilNaduAgricultural University.Coimbatore and the data indicated that the data indicated that the coefficient of variatio(CV)decreased with increase in plot size and this reduction in CV with increased plot size was practically negligible beyond 9.00m2.For a given information for different sizes and shapes of plots also exhibited similar trend to that of CV.Plots elongated along east-west direction gave more relative information suggesting that the plots should have more length along east-west direction than increasing rows along north-south direction.

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110 - 113
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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