Productivity performance in cultivars of crisphead lettuce in the dry season of central amazonia

Abstract

In Amazon the exploration base commercial of vegetable crops is recognition of cultivars and / or varieties that show better adaptability to local conditions, associated with the levels of productivity commercial depending on the crop system. In this sense, the work aimed to evaluate the morphological stability, quality and productivity among cultivars crisphead lettuce, cultivated in seedbeds in the presence and absence of organic mulching, during the dry season in central Amazonia, stabilizing an experiment in municipality of Presidente Figueiredo - AM. The experimental design was a randomized block design in a factorial design consisting of 2 preparations of seedbeds x 19 cultivars of lettuce, with four replications. The components evaluated were; morphological variability; sanity of plants; the fresh materia commercial; commercial head diameter; plant height; number of leaves; stem length and estimated marketable yield kg ha-1. The F test (p <0.05) revealed significant differences the factor corresponding between cultivars and the interaction only for sanity, fresh commercial mass, leaves number and stem length. With the exception of morphological variation in the grouping of averages by the Scott-Knott test at 5 % significant difference was detected for all traits among cultivars. The cultivars; Gloriosa, Havassu, Ironwood, Kaiser and Winslon establish more stable to form heads with better results on agronomic characteristics evaluated for soil and parameters climatic in conditions gifts in this essay. © 2015, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia. All rights reserved.