EVALUATION OF PRODUCTIVITY AND BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF PERSPECTIVE RED BEET BREEDING NUMBER

Investigations of productivity and biochemical composition of red beet (Beta vulgaris L. subsp. vulgaris convar. vulgaris var. vulgaris) perspective breeding numbers were carried out at the Lithuanian Institute of Horticulture.
There were evaluated numbers: 277, 603, 328, 372, 258, 316, 403, 554, 128 and red beets of cultivar ‘Joniai’ (control). The investigated red beets distinguished themselves with round or oval-round root-crops.
There were evaluated total and marketable red beet yield, morphological root-crop properties (length, diameter and weight) and biochemical composition of root-crops.
Out of the investigated red beets, breeding number 258 distinguished itself with the biggest total yield (30.1 t ha^-1), and red beet number 277 produced the biggest amount of marketable production (93.2%). Red beet No. 403 produced the smallest root-crops (the average root-crop weight – 156 g). Investigations showed that root-crops of red beet breeding number 277 accumulated the least amount (364.3 mg kg^-1) of nitrates and the biggest amount of total sugar – 10.3%.

IV Balkan Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes

R. Karklelienė, P. Viškelis, A. Radzevičius, L. Duchovskienė

red beet, yield, morphological properties, nitrates, total sugar

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.830.35