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Qualitative Analysis of Strawberry Varieties in Sub Tropical Climatic Condition of Assam

2022; Excellent Publishers; Volume: 11; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20546/ijcmas.2022.1105.006

2319-7706

Tilak Malakar, D. N. Hazarika, S. Langthasa, R. K. Goswami Goswami, M. K. Kalita, D. Kalita,

Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies

An experiment was carried out in the Instructional cum Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, Biswanath College of Agriculture, Assam Agricultural University, Biswanath Chariali, Assam during 2015-16 to analyse the qualitative characters of strawberry varieties in subtropical climatic condition of Assam. Five varieties namely, Cristal (V1), Subarina (V2), Sweet Charlie (V3), Winter Dawn (V4) and Eliyana (V5) were selected and planted in three cultivation situations i.e. open condition (S1), poly house (S2) and in net house (S3). Altogether 15 treatment combinations were laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with three replications. Total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity, total sugars, reducing sugar, non-reducing sugar, ascorbic acid content and anthocyanin content were selected as qualitative characters of strawberry in the experiment. The data revealed that the qualitative characters of fruits in terms of total soluble solids (8.13°Brix), total sugars (6.60%), reducing sugars (3.29%), non-reducing sugars (3.31%) and anthocyanin content (20.01 mg/100g) were significantly higher in strawberry variety Subarina as compared to other varieties. The variety “Subarina” performed well in all the environmental conditions as compared to the other varieties. Titratable acidity of fruits ranged from 0.53 to 0.68 percent among all the treatment combinations and no significant differences were found among the varieties, cultivation situations or their interaction. The ascorbic acid content was significantly higher in Cristal (32.19 mg/100 g) followed by Subarina (31.18 %). The results of the study revealed that the performance in terms of qualitative characters of fruits were superior in Subarina as compared to other four varieties. The variety “Subarina” performed well in terms of quality in all the cultivation situations as compared to other four varieties selected under the study.