Author(s):

Dhananjay Kumar, Anil K Singh and Anjana Sisodia

Abstract: An experiment was conducted to study the “Performance of gladiolus varieties for growth and corm yield under Eastern Uttar Pradesh condition”. Healthy and uniform corms of 31 gladiolus varieties were planted during October 2017 and experiment was carried out in Randomized Block Design with three replications. Corms of healthy and disease-free varieties of Indian and exotic origin were planted during month of October, 2017. Among varieties, cv. Punjab Dawn found to be early in days to sprouting and cv. Purple Flora was most late. Cultivar Nova Lux found to have maximum width of scape at 20 DAP and cv. American Beauty at 35 and 50 DAP and found minimum in cultivar Flevo Leguna, Punjab Morning and Purple Flora at 20, 35, and 50 DAP, respectively. Cv. Dhanvantari found superior amongst the cultivars for plant height at 20, 35 and 50 DAP, whereas minimum was observed in cultivars BTS at 20 DAP and Flevo Leguna at 35 and 50 DAP. Cultivar Punjab Morning exhibited best performance for number of corms per plant and minimum in cultivar Pink Friendship. Germplasm BTS was found superior with respect to the weight of corm, number of cormels per plant and weight of cormels per plant whereas cultivar American Beauty had bigger corm size.

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