Performance of promising lettuce variety Phule Padma (GKL-2) under Pune conditions Kadam MB, Rajenimbalkar VM*, Patil AS, Bade BA National Agricultural Research Project (MPKV) Ganeshkhind, Pune411067Maharashtra, India *Email for correspondence: vedantika.n@gmail.com
Online published on 21 February, 2022. Abstract Lettuce is a most popular and consumed vegetable in the world and the main leafy vegetable is marketed in Brazil. It is also gaining popularity in India. There are varieties/hybrids commercially grown in India viz Chinese Yellow, Grate Lake, Iceberg and hybrids from private sector. In Maharashtra, around peri-urban area this crop is more popular but as on today no public sector variety or genotype is available in Maharashtra for commercial cultivation which is an important constraint in popularization of this crop. Hence to explore the prospects and developing a new cultivar, the present study was undertaken. In the study, three promising selections viz GKL-1, GKL-2 and GKL-3 were evaluated with check variety Chinese Yellow for six years. The performance of a selection GKL-2 (renamed as Phule Padma) was found most promising for higher yield (298.74 q/ha) than Chinese Yellow (260.27 q/ ha) and also had earliness, green leaves with shining and serrated margins and better nutritive value. Top Keywords Lettuce, Variety, Growth, Yield, Quality. Top |