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Evaluation of exotic gladiolus under sub-tropical mid-hills of Meghalaya

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Title Evaluation of exotic gladiolus under sub-tropical mid-hills of Meghalaya
 
Creator KUMAR, RAJIV
 
Subject Corm; Evaluation; Flowering; Gladiolus; Propagation co-efficient
 
Description An investigation was carried out during 2003–04 at experimental farm of the ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam (Meghalaya) to study the performance of 16 exotic cultivars of gladiolus for cut flower and cormel production. The vegetative, flowering, corm and cormel characters studied showed significant differences among the cultivars. Cultivar ‘Gold Beauty’ gave maximum plant height (105.03 cm), leaf length (57.30 cm), early in spike emergence heading (58.16 days), first floret showing colour (65.83 days) and full opening of first floret (68.33 days), while cultivar ‘Friendship Pink’ gave longest spike (70.00 cm) and rachis (50.05 cm), maximum florets/spike (15.00) and long field durability (13.00 days). Significantly maximum corm diameter (5.76 cm), corm weight (55.11 g), polar (2.71 cm) and equatorial diameter (2.29 cm) and weight of 5 corms (300.00 g) were given by ‘Green Bay’. However cultivar ‘Creamy White’ gave largest flower (11.00 cm), maximum cormels (50.22) and cormel weight (4.05 g)/plant, whereas ‘Australian Fair’ recorded highest propagation co-efficient (251.66%)
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2011-01-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/2438
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 79, No 2 (2009)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/2438/578
 
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