Phenotypic correlations between vegetative characters and yield components in strawberry

✍ Scribed by C. N. D. Lacey

• Book ID: 104616699
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00036655

✦ Synopsis

Phenotypic correlations between 21 vegetative and fruiting characters recorded from clones representing 100 random strawberry genotypes were calculated and studied . Vegetative characters associated with yield were found to fall into two main categories : those associated with fruit number (e .g. the number of leaves during the preceding autumn and winter) ; and those associated with fruit size (e.g . plant size during the preceding seasons) . Late flowering was found to be correlated with heavier yields. The possibility of using these correlations as an aid to increasing the proportion of high yielding types selected during a strawberry breeding programme was examined .