RESEARCHES ON BEHAVIOUR OF SOME PEPPER GENOTYPES CULTIVATED IN PLASTIC TUNNELS

Petre Marian Brezeanu(1), Creola Brezeanu(2), Silvica Ambarus(3), Maria Calin(4), Tina Oana Cristea(4)

1. Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacau, Calea Barladului, Street. no. 220, Romania, tel. 0745172851, e-mail: brezeanumarian@yahoo.com.
2. Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacau, Calea Barladului, Street. no. 220, Romania e-mail: creola.brezeanu@yahoo.com
3. Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacau, Calea Barladului, Street. no. 220, Romania, tel. 0768106612 e-mail: silvia_ambarus@yahoo.com.
4. Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacau, Calea Barladului, Street. no. 220, Romania, tel. 07681066152 e-mail: sclbac@legumebac.ro
5. Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacau, Calea Barladului, Street. no. 220, Romania, tel. 0744772174 e-mail: tinaoana@yahoo.com

Abstract

Spread on all continents today's pepper culture enjoy unanimous appreciation for the high productions and rich content of vitamin C (100 200 mg/100 g of fresh substance), sugars (5.4%), vitamin A and minerals ( 8.5 mg calcium, phosphorus 24 mg, iron 0.4 mg/100 g of fresh substance), who raise the food and diet value (Ambăruş Silvica, 1999). Protected surfaces planted with green pepper expanded in the last period and required a greater diversification of the range of varieties. 68 Variety, important factor of production, must always meet the growing and often changing. requirements of production, driven by consumer needs. Consumers have high demands in terms of color, shape, size and taste fruit and the producer must meet these requirements, making in addition productivity, precocity and resistance to pathogens. In this purpose, in VRDS Bacau were conducted researches that focused on obtaining new varieties of sweet pepper, more productive, high quality fruit, early, with tolerance to diseases. In a same time our new obtained varieties are competitive on internal and external market. Through this research we aimed to enrich the fund of germplasm material, improving the outlook for the bell peppers. The aim of our research was to obtain new pepper varieties suitable for cultivation in protected area and distinguished by earliness and high level of yield. In this purpose were used as starting material for breeding varieties of global and local range, local populations as genitors for different genetic recombination. The highest level of yield was obtained by L-8: (67.21 t /ha) and L- 10: (62.65 t /ha). The most early production accomplishes L-10 with 23.95 t /ha.

Keywords

yield Capsicum annuum earliness