EVALUATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF GLADIOLUS (Gladiolus hybridus Hort.) GENOTYPES UNDER SUB HUMID CONDITION OF RAJASTHAN

DHARA SINGH¹*, ASHUTOSH MISHRA², JITENDRA SINGH³, BALRAM MEENA^4
1Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar, 326023, Agriculture University, Kota, 324001, Rajasthan
²Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar, 326023, Agriculture University, Kota, 324001, Rajasthan
³Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar, 326023, Agriculture University, Kota, 324001, Rajasthan
⁴Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar, 326023, Agriculture University, Kota, 324001, Rajasthan
* Corresponding Author : dharasingh444@rediffmail.com

Received : 11-01-2017     Accepted : 26-01-2017     Published : 12-02-2017
Volume : 9     Issue : 7       Pages : 3846 - 3848
Int J Agr Sci 9.7 (2017):3846-3848

Keywords : Gladiolus Genotypes, Morphological Characters
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : I am heartily grateful to Prof. L.K. Dashora, Dean, College of Horticulture & Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar, for rendering all the necessary facilities required for accomplishment of this research work and timely valuable guidance
Author Contribution : All author equal contributed

A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2014-15 to study “Evaluation of Morphological Characters of Gladiolus Genotypes (Gladiolus hybridus Hort.)” at the Instructional Farm, Department of Floriculture & Landscaping, College of Horticulture & Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar. The experiment consisted of 12 varieties ‘African Star’, ‘Arti’, ‘Darshan’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Hunting Song’, ‘Legend’, ‘Pusa Srijana’, ‘PusaKiran’, ‘Snow Princess’, ‘Sunayana’, ‘Trader Horn’ and ‘Urmi’ laid out in randomized block design with three replications. The variety ‘Trader Horn’ showed the best performance for maximum number of leaves per plant (9.75), plant height (137.09 cm), spike length (123.38 cm), floret diameter (10.93 cm), duration of flowering (16.17), number of florets per spike (20.08). The ‘Legend’ was noted for best yielding variety regarding, maximum number of spikes (37.0) per plot, sprouts per corm (2.67) and B:C ratio (2.18).