Special Issue "New Challenges in Productivity of Strawberry"

A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Fruit Production Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Christopher M. Menzel
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Guest Editor
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Nambour, Queensland 4560, Australia
Interests: agronomy; horticulture; agricultural; plant science; control of fruit size; strawberry plants

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Strawberries are grown around the globe across many different environments and growing systems. Productivity and economic returns vary significantly from country to country and region to region. Yields range from 10 tons per ha up to more than 50 tons per ha, depending on the cultivar, plant agronomy, and the weather. The cost of harvesting is high compared with many other horticultural crops and profitability can be severely reduced by poor fruit quality and low marketable yields. Research is required to maintain or even increase profitability using new growing systems. These new growing systems might help the commercial industry mitigate some of the impacts of climate change in the future.

Dr. Christopher M. Menzel
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • climate change
  • cultivar
  • economic returns
  • flowering
  • fruiting
  • glasshouse production
  • growing systems
  • irrigation management
  • pests
  • plant diseases
  • plant nutrition
  • protected cropping
  • remote sensing
  • soil-less production
  • time of planting
  • tunnels
  • yields

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Effects of Runner Removal and Partial Defoliation on the Growth and Yield Performance of ‘Favori’ Everbearing Strawberry Plants
Horticulturae 2021, 7(8), 215; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae7080215 - 29 Jul 2021
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It is not known to what degree growth and fruit yield are source-limited in everbearing strawberry plants. The growth and yield performance effect of bi-weekly removal of all runners and/or one or two leaves during the cropping season of tunnel-grown ‘Favori’ everbearing strawberry [...] Read more.
It is not known to what degree growth and fruit yield are source-limited in everbearing strawberry plants. The growth and yield performance effect of bi-weekly removal of all runners and/or one or two leaves during the cropping season of tunnel-grown ‘Favori’ everbearing strawberry plants was determined. Plants were grown on a table-top system in an open plastic tunnel under natural light conditions in Norway from May to October. Removal of runners and leaves was bi-weekly from 5 June until 25 September. Fruits were harvested from 5 July to 7 October. Bi-weekly runner removal increased total and marketable yield and number and size of fruits, while increasing leaf thinning had the opposite effects. However, none of the treatments affected the fruit number and yield of the first fruiting flush. The treatments did not affect realization of the yield potential of the plants at planting, whereas the continued floral initiation and fruit growth were enhanced by runner removal. Increasing leaf thinning had the opposite effects. Both floral initiation and fruit growth in heavily flowering and fruiting everbearing strawberry are source-limited owing to the high fruit/leaf ratio of such plants. Full article
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