Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-m9kch Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-12T03:19:17.623Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Evaluation of the banana cultivars Zelig, Grande Naine and Gruesa under different environmental conditions in the Canary Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2006

Juan Cabrera Cabrera  and
Victor Galán Saúco
Juan Cabrera Cabrera
Affiliation:
Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Fruticultura Tropical, Apartado 60, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain
Victor Galán Saúco
Affiliation:
Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias, Departamento de Fruticultura Tropical, Apartado 60, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain
Get access

Abstract

Introduction. A study was done to compare Gruesa, a local dwarf Cavendish selection, with two other cultivars of the Cavendish subgroup in the open air or under greenhouse conditions in two localities of the Canary Islands. Materials and methods. The trials were set up with the cultivars Zelig, Grande Naine and Gruesa in four plots on the northern slope: one outdoors and three under three different greenhouse covers (one with polyethylene lamina and the other two with different types of mesh), and in one outdoor plot on the southern slope of the island of Tenerife. Morphological, phenological and production characteristics were studied over three productive cycles. Results. Significant differences were found in both plant height (Grande Naine > Zelig > Gruesa) and pseudostem thickness (Gruesa > Grande Naine = Zelig). Each cultivar showed a stable [height:thickness] ratio, remaining the same in all trial conditions. Gruesa cycle length was longer than those of the other two cultivars, emitting more leaves until bunch emergency. Gruesa produced the most hands per bunch and the most fingers per hand. In all cultivars, finger length was directly related to pseudostem height. All three cultivars produced well, with fruits very similar in organoleptic traits. A reduction in cycle length and a slight increase in productivity were observed in the northern plot under the polyethylene cover compared with the plots under other covers and outdoors. Conclusion. Gruesa appears more recommendable than Zelig and Grande Naine for open-air plantations in windy localities.

Keywords

SpainCanary IslandsMusavariety trialscropping systemsgreenhousessolar radiationphenologyEspagneCanaries (îles)Musaessai de variétésystème de cultureserreradiation solairephénologie
Type
Research Article
Information
Fruits , Volume 60 , Issue 6 , November 2005 , pp. 357 - 369
Copyright
© CIRAD, EDP Sciences, 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Galán Saúco, V., Cabrera Cabrera, J., Variedades de plátanos cultivadas en Canarias, Merc. 24 (1999) 8–11.
Galán Saúco, V., Cabrera Cabrera, J., Hernández Delgado, P.M., A comparison of bananas cultivar Dwarf Cavendish, Grande Naine and Williams for the Canary Islands, Fruits 50 (4) (1995) 255–256.
Galán Saúco, V., Cabrera Cabrera, J., Hernández Delgado, P.M., Rodríguez Pastor, M.C., Evaluation of medium-height Cavendish banana cultivars under the subtropical conditions of the Canary Islands, Acta Hortic. 490 (1998) 103–113. CrossRef
Galán Saúco, V., Cabrera Cabrera, J., Hernández Delgado, P.M., Rodríguez Pastor, M.C., Comparison of protected and open-air cultivation of Grande Naine and Dwarf Cavendish bananas, Acta Hortic. 490 (1998) 247–259. CrossRef
Eckstein, K., Fraser, C., Husselmann, J., Temple Murray, N., The evaluation of promising new banana cultivars, Acta Hortic. 490 (1998) 57–69. CrossRef
Méndez Hernández, C., A comparison of the parent crop of three cultivars of banana in the open air and under plastic mesh in the North of Tenerife, Acta Hortic. 490 (1998) 97–101. CrossRef
Robinson J., Bananas and plantains, CAB Int., Wallingford, UK, 1996.
Robinson, J., Characteristic of three new banana cultivars, Ban. Newsl. 12 (1989) 9–10.
Ziv D., L’influence de l’hiver sur la croissance du bananier, in: Goren N., Mendel K. (Eds.), Proc. XVIII Int. Hortic. Congr., Tel Aviv, Israel, 1970, pp. 1–11.
Lassoudière A., Le bananier et sa culture en Côte d’Ivoire. Première partie. Connaissance de la plante. Interaction avec le milieu écologique, Inst. Rech. Fruits Agrumes, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire,1978.
Kuhne F.A., The Dwarf Cavendish Banana, CSFRI, Farming in South Africa C3 Nelspruit, South Africa, 1979.
Galán Saúco, V., García Samarín, J., Carbonell, E., Estudio de la práctica del deshijado y la fenología de la platanera [Musa acuminata Colla (AAA) cv. Pequeña Enana] en la isla de Tenerife. I. Introducción y revisión bibliográfica, Fruits 39 (7–8) (1984) 453–459.
Galán Saúco, V., García Samarín, J., Carbonell, E., Estudio de la práctica del deshijado y la fenología de la platanera [Musa acuminata Colla (AAA) cv. Pequeña Enana] en la isla de Tenerife. II. Estudio base de la práctica del deshijado en Tenerife, Fruits 39 (9) (1984) 541–549.
Galán Saúco, V., García Samarín, J., Carbonell, E., Estudio de la práctica del deshijado y la fenología de la platanera [Musa acuminata Colla (AAA) cv. Pequeña Enana] en la isla de Tenerife. III. Fenología de la platanera en la isla de Tenerife, Fruits 39 (10) (1984) 595–605.
Galán Saúco, V., García Samarín, J., Carbonell, E., Estudio de la práctica del deshijado y la fenología de la platanera [Musa acuminata Colla (AAA) cv. Pequeña Enana] en la isla de Tenerife. IV. Práctica tentativa deseable para el deshijado en la isla de Tenerife en base a las observaciones fenológicas y discusión general sobre el deshijado en Canarias, Fruits 39 (10) (1984) 606–611.
Cabrera Cabrera, J., Galán Saúco, V., Hernández Delgado, P.M., Rodríguez Pastor, M.C., Single-cycle cultivation of in vitro-propagated Grande Naine banana under subtropical conditions, Acta Hortic. 490 (1998) 175–179. CrossRef
Turner D.W., Hunt N., Growth, yield and leaf nutrient composition of 30 banana varieties in subtropical New South Wales, Techn. Bull. 31, Dep. Agric., New South Wales, Australia, 1984.
Robinson, J.C., Nel, D.J., Eckstein, K., A field comparison of ten Cavendish subgroup banana cultivars and selections (Musa AAA) over four crop cycles in the subtropics, J. Hortic. Sci. 69 (4) (1993) 511–521. CrossRef
Hernández Suárez E., Carnero Hernández A., Febles González J.C., Brito Herrera P., Medina Alonso G., Suárez Báez J.M., Amador Martín S., Situación actual de las moscas blancas espirales en Canarias, in: Fernández Galván D., Hernández Delgado P.M. (Eds.), Actividades del ICIA en platanera, ICIA, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, 2002.
Antignus, Y., Nestel, D., Cohen, S., Lapidot, M., Ultraviolet-deficient greenhouse environmental effects white fly attraction and flight-behavior, Environ. Entomol. 30 (2001) 394–399. CrossRef
Anon., Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February 1993 on the common organization of the market in bananas, Off. J. Eur. Union, L 047, Brussels, Belgium, 1993, pp. 1–11.