COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BIO- AND CHEMICAL FERTILIZATION IN STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION - Fertilizers: Components, Uses in Agriculture and Environmental Impacts - page 136

Fruit Quality Traits
Morphometric Fruit Traits
The results obtained concerning the fruit weight, length and width were significantly
influenced by the fertilizer and cultivar (Table 3).
Table 2. The influence of the fertilizer type and cultivar on the generative potential
of strawberry fruits

Number of
fruits/plant

Factor Yield/plant (kg)

Biofertilizer 29.78±1.62a 0.71±0.03a

Fertilizer (A)

Chemical fertilizer 28.61±1.32a 0.67±0.03a

'Clery' 36.25±1.16a 0.78±0.02a

'Joly' 26.08±1.05b 0.76±0.03a

Cultivar (B)

'Dely' 25.25±0.97b 0.53±0.01b

Fertilizer x
Cultivar
(A x B)

'Clery'

Biofertilizer 37.67±1.86a 0.79±0.02a

'Joly' 26.17±1.62a 0.79±0.04a

'Dely' 25.50±1.43a 0.54±0.02a

'Clery' 34.83±1.30a 0.77±0.03a

Chemical
fertilizer

'Joly' 26.00±1.48a 0.72±0.04a

'Dely' 25.00±1.44a 0.52±0.02a

ANOVA

A ns ns

* *

B

A x B ns ns

Means of 2-year values with three replicates ± standard error.
Values within each column followed by the different small letters are significantly different at the
p≤0.05 by LSD test.
ns - non significant differences.

Table 3. The influence of the fertilizer type and cultivar on morphometric traits
of strawberry fruits

Factor

Weight
(g)

Length
(mm)

Width
(mm)

Fruit shape
index

Biofertilizer 23.33±0.91b 42.76±1.41b 38.34±0.92b 1.11±0.02a

Fertilizer (A)

Chemical
fertilizer

25.04±1.02a 43.53±1.41a 39.00±0.88a 1.11±0.02a