Influence of cultivar and culture system on nutritional and organoleptic quality of strawberry

Summary

Abstract BACKGROUND Strawberries are widely appreciated and consumed as a pleasant‐tasting fruit either in fresh form or as processed product. Of the many factors which can affect the quality of fruit (sensorial and nutritional), the cultivar is especially important, but it is also affected by crop conditions. The main characteristics related to the fruit quality and nutritional attributes were assessed in several varieties of strawberry grown in soilless and soil culture. The effect of different cultivars and cropping systems on selected quality parameters, were assessed by applying multivariate statistical methods, such as principal component analysis and partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS‐DA). RESULTS Differences among cultivars were observed based on the mineral compositio