Improvement and Performance of Gladiolus Hybrids for Flower Traits/ Novel Colour and Higher Corm Multiplication
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Innovations and Research - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
Gladiolus is very important cut flower crop and also ideal both for garden display and floral arrangements for table and interior decoration as well as making high quality bouquet. The main emphasis in gladiolus improvement has to be on development of varieties having attractive novel colour and large number of florets mainly for cut flower, long spikes, more number of well spaced large sized florets and good corm multiplication ability. Hence, it is important to develop Indian hybrids and evaluate them for different traits suitable for commercial cultivation in northern plains. The experiment was conducted with twenty seven hybrids along with a check at the research farm of the Division of Floriculture & Landscaping, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during the year 2016-17 to study the performance and suitability of hybrids for different traits. The mean performance of gladiolus hybrid data were highly significant for all the characters studied. The results indicated that almost all the hybrids performed well for most of the important characters; however, the hybrids such as Salmon Queen Open Seedling, Suchitra x Melody, Bindiya (mutant), Green Pasture x Regency, Pink Parassol Open Seedling have recorded maximum plant height, spike length and rachis length. Two hybrids such as Suchitra x Melody and Bindiya (mutant) produced 21.33 and 21.00 number of florets per spike respectively. But, remaining hybrids have also produced more than 16.00 numbers of florets per spike as compared to check. Number of shoots per plant have also been recorded 3.00 or more than 3.00 by many hybrids such as Pink Parassol Open Seedling, Melody Open Seedling, Suchitra x Melody, Vidushi (mutant) and Green Pasture x Regency etc.
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Kishan Swaroop, et al.
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