Impacts of different planting times on fruit quality and some bioactive contents of different strawberry cultivars

ABSTRACT Strawberry fruit quality traits can be affected by genotype-environment interactions, which determine the consumer acceptance of fruits. This factorial experiment was based on completely randomised blocks (RCBD) with two planting dates (5 and 20 April) cultivars (‘Albion’, ‘San Andreas’ ‘Portola’) strawberry three replications, some pomological qualitative factors berry were investigated at harvest. The results showed no significant difference width, length, weight firmness, while plant yield stem diameter (SD) different dates. minimum SD (19.80) recorded in cv. ‘Portola’ date April. Although lowest achieved both dates, it had highest titratable acidity (TA) (0.83%) first April). amount soluble solid concentration (SSC), electrolyte conductivity (EC), pH, TA chlorophyll not cultivar effect colour. total phenolic (275.44 mg GAE · 100 mL -1 FW) April, value (251.22 5 In general, is suggested that least correlated cultivar.