Author(s):

VD Kadam, SJ Shinde and SJ Syed

Abstract: A field experiment was carried out at Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, V.N.M.K.V., Parbhani. The field experiment was carried out in Factorial Randomized Block Design (FRBD) with three replication during the Rabi season, 2017. Treatment consisted of three levels of spacing S₁ (15cm ×15cm), S₂ (20cm×15cm) and S₃ (30cm×15cm) and three levels of fertilizers F₁ (100% RDF), F₂ (125% RDF)and F₃ (150% RDF). The experiment was conducted in Factorial Randomized Block design with nine treatment combinations, replicated thrice. Variety “Ruby Queen” was selected for the study. Growth characters such as number of leaves per plant at harvest (15.64) were observed maximum with the treatments S₃ (30cm×15cm) and F₃ (150% RDF) with (15.88). The quality characters like TSS (11.63%), total sugar (8.50%), anthocyanin content (33.02 mg/100g) and iron content (1.14 mg/100g) were observed maximum with the treatment S₃ (30cm×15cm) and quality characters like TSS (11.62%), total sugar (8.45%), anthocyanin content (35.77 mg/100g) and iron content (1.18 mg/100g) were observed maximum with the treatment F₁ (100% RDF). The maximum physiological loss in weight (%) at 11^th days (51.89%) was observed in the treatment S₁ (15cm×15cm) and at 11^th days (54.00%) was observed in the treatment F₁ (100% RDF).

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