Variety testing of new head lettuce hybrids

Abstract

The growing demand of the country’s population for head lettuce is met, according to various authors’s estimates, by no more than 30-35%. The mains suppliers from Iran, Israel, and Uzbekistan are actively involved in the import of green crops in Russian Federation. One of the existing levers of increasing the production of head lettuce is the introduction of new high-yielding and complex-resistant hybrids into production and the development of varietal agricultural techniques for their cultivation. The article presents an agro-technology evaluation of new hybrids of head lettuce F1 Serena and F1 LE 10585 of the company “Sakata” according to the main economically valuable indications (productivity, yield, biochemical analysis) in the conditions of the Anapa-Taman zone.