Varietal response of strawberry to environmental conditions of Quetta (Balochistan) for runner production

Fazal Muhammad Bangulzai

doi:10.19045/bspab.2018.700162

Abstract

Abstract Five strawberry varieties (Pochanta, Tuft, Tioga, Aliso and Red-berlet) were tested for consecutive two years (2016 and 2017) Experiment laid out at experimental and demonstration orchard, Agriculture Research Institute, Sariab Quetta to develop the most promising cultivar for runner production under the environmental condition of Quetta (Balochistan). The experiment laid out in a four replicated randomized complete block design (RCBD). The results revealed that strawberry varieties differed significantly (P 0.05). The two years mean data indicated that Red-berlet variety showed superiority over rest of the tested varieties with highest values for survival rate (98.38%), runners plant-1 (35.79) and runner yield plot-1 (860.3). Apart from the most superior performance of variety Red-berlet, Tioga, Aliso and Tuft also showed good average performance, but Pochanta remained the least under agro-ecological conditions of Quetta (Balochistan). Therefore, the performance of tested strawberry varieties ranked as Red-berlet>Tioga>Aliso>Tuft>Pochanta. Keywords: Environmental conditions; Runners plant-1; Runner yield Strawberry; Varieties http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2018.700162

Highlights

Introduction provides more vitaminC than orange, Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) belongs to contains fiber and low calorie carbohydrate family Rosaceae is a perennial herbaceous [2]
The aim of this study was to investigate the best cultivar of strawberry for runner production under the environmental condition of Quetta
The two years average survival rate was maximum (98.38%) in strawberry variety Red-berlet, followed by an equal survival rate of 95.75 percent in varieties Aliso and Tioga; the survival rate decreased to 94.12 percent in case of variety Tuft; while the lowest survival rate (91.25%) was examined in case of variety Pochanta

Summary

Introduction

C than orange, Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) belongs to contains fiber and low calorie carbohydrate family Rosaceae is a perennial herbaceous [2]. Due to favorable climatic and soil plant with red Fruits, is native to condition strawberry is successfully mountainous tropical and temperate region. Cultivating in upper area of Sindh province, The name is derived from two old English where total area under strawberry cultivation words "strew" meaning “Straw” and beige is about 236 hectares [3]. As nutritionally is cultivated in lower altitude in the month of strawberry is a rich source of vitamin C, November and it produces fruit in the month Chopped strawberries may be placed on toast [5-8]

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