SONAM, ANIS AHMED MIRZA AND SHAILESH KUMAR SINGH*
Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-144 411 (Punjab), India
*(e-mail: drshaileshhrt@gmail.com; Mobile: 98559 49955)
(Received: July 5, 2023; Accepted: August 9, 2023)
ABSTRACT
The climatic condition in India is highly suitable for commercial cultivation of strawberry under open field as well as polyhouse conditions. Further, the introduction of a wide range of strawberry genotypes has resulted in greater opportunities for its commercialization. However, it is important to evaluate the performance of existing and introduced genotypes under different growing conditions. The experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of strawberry genotypes based on growth and yield potential of 10 strawberry cultivars (Winter Dawn, Camarosa, Dhankour, Nabila, Rania, Chandler, Sweet Charlie, Fern, Douglas and Selva) under open field and polyhouse condition. Though mortality was lower with early flowering and better plant growth attributes under polyhouse condition, the yield and fruit size were also reported to be superior in plants grown under polyhouse conditions. The highest fruit yield (g per plant) of strawberry under open field and polyhouse was recorded in cultivar Camarosa (387.147 and 468.887 g per plant, respectively) followed by Rania (355.423 and 377.907 g per plant, respectively) and Winter Dawn (302.493 and 374.340 g per plant, respectively). Among the various genotypes, Camarosa, Rania, Nabila, Dhankour and Winter Dawn have been reported to be suitable cultivars which can be adopted by the farmers for high yield and crop productivity under open field and polyhouse conditions.
Key words : Genotypes, mortality, plant spread, strawberry, yield