Growth analysis of the everbearing strawberry ‘Delizzimo’ under controlled temperature and photoperiod conditions

Table 2 Specific leaf area (SLA), leaf weight ratio (LWR) and leaf area ratio (LAR) of ‘Delizzimo’ strawberry plants at start of the experiment and as affected by photoperiod and temperature after 13, 26 and 39 days of cultivation

Temperature (°C)	Days	Photoperiod (h)	SLA (cm²/mg)	LWR	LAR (cm²/mg)
At start			0.278	0.702	0.195
12	13	10	0.204	0.588	0.120
	13	20	0.283	0.603	0.171
	26	10	0.172	0.511	0.088
	26	20	0.168	0.554	0.093
	39	10	0.171	0.457	0.078
	39	20	0.169	0.528	0.089
19	13	10	0.161	0.616	0.099
		20	0.298	0.630	0.188
	26	10	0.202	0.593	0.120
		20	0.202	0.605	0.122
	39	10	0.182	0.551	0.100
		20	0.183	0.555	0.102
26	13	10	0.232	0.635	0.147
		20	0.283	0.616	0.174
	26	10	0.233	0.635	0.148
		20	0.237	0.595	0.141
	39	10	0.194	0.610	0.118
		20	0.186	0.552	0.103
Probability level of significance (ANOVA)
Source of variation
Temperature (A)			0.003	< 0.001	0.002
Photoperiod (B)			< 0.001	n.s	0.002
Growth period (C)			< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
A x B			0.031	< 0.001	0.005
A x C			< 0.001	< 0.001	0.001
B x C			< 0.001	n.s	< 0.001
A x B x C			< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001

*The data are the means of three replicates, each with 10, 8, 6 and 5 plants at 0, 13, 26 and 39 days, respectively
n.s not significant

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