COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE OF RABANET CULTIVATED IN ENVIRONMENT PROTECTED UNDER WATER BLADES - DOI: 10.7127/rbai.v11n500760

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The rabanet, being a tuber, is generated in the sub-superficial layer of the soil, and for this reason the observation and control of the water characteristics of the same is of fundamental importance. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of water slides depth on the commercial performance of radish cultivated in protected environment. The experiment was installed in a greenhouse of the State University of Goiás - UEG, Camps Ipameri. The design was the randomized blocks in factorial scheme. The treatments were composed of the combination of cultivars (Cometo and Giant Crimson) and percentage of available water in the soil ("20", "40", "60", "80" and "100%") in four blocks, comprising 40 experimental units, consisting of 4 dm-3 vessels. They were evaluated at the time of harvest: plant height, leaf number, root length, fresh and dry mass of shoot and root, and root length. The leaf effect was significant for the length, fresh and dry mass of the root, the optimum blades were "71.79%", "71.04%" and "62.31%", respectively. The effect of cultivars was observed for the root dry mass variable, and cultivar Cometo  presented the best performance.