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Assessment Of Day-Neutrality Scoring Methods In Strawberry Families Grown In Greenhouse And Field Environments, Sedat Serçe, James F. Hancock

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

A strawberry plant is considered day-neutral if it can form flower buds under both long and short day conditions; however, researchers use different methods to score day-neutrality. We studied the relationship among several different evaluation methods for day-neutrality and analyzed the possibility that greenhouse screens can be used to predict field flowering performance. The evaluation methods included: 1) flowering within 100 days from germination in a greenhouse; 2) flowering during the first summer after planting in the field; 3) flowering under both short and long days in the second year in a greenhouse; and 4) flowering under both short and …