Foliar application of micronutrients influenced vegetative growth, yield and quality traits of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) cv. Chandler

Abstract

Among the fruit crops, Strawberry is the one of the important fruit crop. An experiment was conducted at research field, Department of Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture Technology and Science, Naini, Allahabad, during the year 2014-2015, the experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design having ten treatments of micronutrients at different levels and one micronutrient combination with three replications. The observations were recorded on vegetative growth and yield related traits. The result revealed that treatment T6 was found to be best in terms of maximum plant height (20.11cm), plant spread (30.33cm), number of leaves (30.33), petiole length (16.83 cm), number of flowers per plant (32.34), number of fruits per plant (30.26), fruit yield per plant (474.34 g), and benefit cost ratio (2.71) whereas T7 registered maximum fruit set (93.47%) and T4 recorded for maximum fruit weight (16.54g).