Effect of end-border condition on small-plot yield of cucumber

✍ Scribed by Todd C. Wehner

• Book ID: 104618495
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 375 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00040181

✦ Synopsis

Twelve or 14 cultivars and breeding lines (collectively referred to as lines hereafter) of pickling and fresh-market cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L .) were evaluated in 1 .5 m long plots . The plots were harvested once when the check lines reached the 10% oversized fruit stage, and total, marketable, and early (oversized) number of fruits per plot was counted . The plots were planted with or without 1 .5 m long end-borders to determine whether end-borders can be eliminated in small-plot trials where seed numbers and field space are limiting . Yield in unbordered plots was inflated 5 to 21% over bordered plots, but there was generally no significant effect in the analysis of variance for line x end-border condition . Therefore, end-borders are not needed when comparing different lines .