Yield and Fruit Quality of Strawberry Cultivars under Different Irrigation Regimes

Strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa Duch.) production requires the input of large amounts water provided by irrigation during entire cycle. However, availability is shrinking in many important strawberry cropping areas, such as Huelva (in Europe), compromising environmental sustainability and economic viability production. Besides technical approaches, water-saving strategies are necessary for improving productivity use low water-consumptive cultivars with high or allowing deficit (DI) strategies. A two-year field experiment was conducted to compare physiological agronomical response six commercial (‘Sabrina’, ‘Fortuna’, ‘Splendor’, ‘Primoris’, ‘Rabida’ ‘Rociera’) different treatments ranging from 65% 140% estimated ‘Sabrina’ evapotranspiration (ETcSab; ~224–510 mm year−1). Cultivars differed substantially yield consumption linked their biomass partitioning into reproductive/ vegetative organs, determining efficiency (YE). Their needs (IN) conditioned supplies, involving significant losses DI (<20% IN) but not decreasing fruit quality. The highly-consumptive productive ‘Rociera’, reduced yields (<40%) were still profitable; low-water-consumptive ‘Splendor’ ‘Primoris’ represent water-savings (<20%) cultivation.