Assessment of yield and quality of quinoa accessions grown in Ferralsols following seasonal difference

Abstract

The quinoa accession varieties have been cultivated in Vietnam in recent decades. The initial results indicate that these varieties have well adapted to Vietnam’s climate, even better than some of their mother areas. However, further evaluation of the impact of the seasonal region on quinoa growth and development is necessary for a tropical country like Vietnam. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the yield and quality of quinoa accession varieties planted on Ferralsolsl in the Dak Lak province of Vietnam in three distinct seasons. Ten quinoa accession varieties include Leucan Boldo, Riobamba, 27 - 6R, EDK – 4, 59 – ALC, ISLUGA, Atlas, Cahuil, Moradas and Haiwan were examined. Field experiments were conducted based on the Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) in triplicated repeat. Various plant agronomical traits including plant height, branch number, the total number of the main bunch, length of the bunch, number of grains per bunch, grains weight, as well as the contents of protein, and starch were investigated. Finally, the biological and practical productivity of ten quinoa accessions was determined. In general, the obtained results showed that the quinoa varieties are grown from January to April 2020 (Season 1) had higher quality and yield than those grown in other seasons. Collectively, the variety Atlas showed the highest-quality indexes including agronomical traits such as approximately 37 branches per plant or its bunch length was around 27 cm, and its practical productivity was 22.2 quintals per hectare follow by the Moradas, Cahui, and Haiwan varieties. Taken together, our data indicated that the correlation of the seasonal factor in Dak Lak province of Vietnam is different for each quinoa variety.