Potato Aeroponics: Effects of Cultivar and Plant Origin on Minituber Production
Abstract
Aeroponics is a modern and soilless technology that is used for the efficient production of pre-basic seed potatoes, namely minitubers. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the cultivar and type of planting material on the production of minitubers in the aeroponic facility in Guča, Serbia, at short, 7-day harvest intervals. Although aeroponic cultivation prolonged the vegetative cycle in all five investigated cultivars, the dynamics of minituber formation varied between genotypes. Two early maturing cultivars, Cleopatra and Sinora, quickly completed the vegetative cycle and formed a small number of minitubers, while the medium-late to late cultivars, Kennebec and Agria, steadily tuberized during the entire cultivation period in the aeroponic facility. The type of planting material affected the dynamics of minituber formation in three investigated cultivars. Sinora, Cleopatra, and Désirée’s plants of in vitro origin reached the final number of minitubers and the vines started sen...escing much earlier than plants of minituber origin. Kennebec and Agria plants of in vitro origin produced the largest number of minitubers (53.8–54.5) and showed the highest yield (9.8–10.5 kg m−2) during the cultivation period, while the heaviest minitubers were formed by Sinora plants of minituber origin (15.48 g). In addition, the temperature during pre-harvest periods significantly affected the number of tubers at harvests in Kennebec and Agria, and minituber mass in Désirée. © 2022 by the authors.
Keywords:
pre-basic seed potato / soilles cultivation / Solanum tuberosum / virus-freeSource:
Horticulturae, 2022, 8, 10Funding / projects:
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200116 (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200116)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200007 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research 'Siniša Stanković') (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200007)
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Poljoprivredni fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Broćić, Zoran AU - Oljača, Jasmina AU - Pantelić, Danijel AU - Rudić, Jelena AU - Momčilović, Ivana PY - 2022 UR - http://aspace.agrif.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/6211 AB - Aeroponics is a modern and soilless technology that is used for the efficient production of pre-basic seed potatoes, namely minitubers. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the cultivar and type of planting material on the production of minitubers in the aeroponic facility in Guča, Serbia, at short, 7-day harvest intervals. Although aeroponic cultivation prolonged the vegetative cycle in all five investigated cultivars, the dynamics of minituber formation varied between genotypes. Two early maturing cultivars, Cleopatra and Sinora, quickly completed the vegetative cycle and formed a small number of minitubers, while the medium-late to late cultivars, Kennebec and Agria, steadily tuberized during the entire cultivation period in the aeroponic facility. The type of planting material affected the dynamics of minituber formation in three investigated cultivars. Sinora, Cleopatra, and Désirée’s plants of in vitro origin reached the final number of minitubers and the vines started senescing much earlier than plants of minituber origin. Kennebec and Agria plants of in vitro origin produced the largest number of minitubers (53.8–54.5) and showed the highest yield (9.8–10.5 kg m−2) during the cultivation period, while the heaviest minitubers were formed by Sinora plants of minituber origin (15.48 g). In addition, the temperature during pre-harvest periods significantly affected the number of tubers at harvests in Kennebec and Agria, and minituber mass in Désirée. © 2022 by the authors. T2 - Horticulturae T2 - Horticulturae T1 - Potato Aeroponics: Effects of Cultivar and Plant Origin on Minituber Production IS - 10 VL - 8 DO - 10.3390/horticulturae8100915 ER -
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Broćić, Z., Oljača, J., Pantelić, D., Rudić, J.,& Momčilović, I.. (2022). Potato Aeroponics: Effects of Cultivar and Plant Origin on Minituber Production. in Horticulturae, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8100915
Broćić Z, Oljača J, Pantelić D, Rudić J, Momčilović I. Potato Aeroponics: Effects of Cultivar and Plant Origin on Minituber Production. in Horticulturae. 2022;8(10). doi:10.3390/horticulturae8100915 .
Broćić, Zoran, Oljača, Jasmina, Pantelić, Danijel, Rudić, Jelena, Momčilović, Ivana, "Potato Aeroponics: Effects of Cultivar and Plant Origin on Minituber Production" in Horticulturae, 8, no. 10 (2022), https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8100915 . .