Electrophoretic characterization of crude leaf proteins in Lycopersicon and Trichosanthes cultivars

Abstract

Young leaves of three cultivars of Lycopersicon esculentum (Mill) and a cultivar of Trichosanthes 
cucumerina var. anguina (Haines) were freshly collected at 50% flowering. Crude leaf proteins were 
extracted from them and characterized using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Intercultivar 
qualitative as well as quantitative protein bands depict some degree of relationship among the 
Lycopersicon cultivars studied. The degree of variation in protein bands as a measure of genetic 
divergence between L. esculentum cultivars and T. cucumerina was discussed.